Stanford hires Tavita Pritchard: On the Andrew Luck connection, the resource imperative and the Cardinal’s circle coming full

On the eve of the final game of another lost season, Stanford announced its head coach “for the future.” It was a name from ...

University of Utah and BYU explore connections with centers of learning in India

An Indian ashram offered members of a trade mission from Utah a taste of traditional ways to harness their inner energy and ...

OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic

MIT spinout OpenAGI claims its Lux AI agent scores 83.6% on a rigorous computer-use benchmark where OpenAI's Operator hits 61 ...
MIT Technology Review

The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large ...

Move Over, Computer Science. Students Are Flocking to New A.I. Majors.

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate ...
Harvard Medical School

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program Celebrates 55th Anniversary

“Over the past 55 years, HST has proven that when engineers, scientists, and clinicians get together, human health leaps ...

This MIT Ph.D. is betting the future of transportation is on water, not in the air

Sampriti Bhattacharyya is building hydrofoil boats aim to revolutionize maritime transportation with hybrid-electric vessels.

How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies

AI is changing how investors and startups bring their products to market. Three experts offered their insights at TechCrunch ...
The College Fix

Are U.S. universities too dependent on international students? MIT panel debates costs, benefits

This debate was happening in real-time, with live ammo, so to speak, and as such, it needed a level-headed conversation where ...
Reason

First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...
Courthouse News Service

First Circuit ends Jewish students’ lawsuit over Gaza protests at MIT

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology protest in support of Palestinians May 15, 2024. (Peacearth/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The Massachusetts Institute of ...
NPR

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent

Monday is the deadline for a handful of universities to agree to a list of commitments that align with the Trump administration's political priorities, in exchange for preferential access to federal ...