Yahoo

Brown University, MIT professor shootings may be linked, reports say

Video frames depicting a person of interest in the Brown University mass shooting. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: FBI/Providence Police Department via AP, Providence Police ...
AOL

Move over Harvard and MIT—this university might be winning the AI race, and you’ve probably never heard of it

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sounded an alarm earlier this month, warning that China is rapidly closing in on the U.S. in the global race to AI dominance. And DeepSeek’s sudden rise earlier this year ...
AZOM

MIT Extracts Clean Water from Air 45x Faster with Ultrasound

Using ultrasound, MIT has created a powerful technique to extract and transform moisture in the air into clean water. MIT engineers designed an ultrasonic system to “shake” water out of an atmospheric ...
Bloomberg L.P.

China’s AI University Beats Out Harvard, MIT in Race For Patents

On a crisp afternoon in Beijing, the campus of Tsinghua University hums with the activity of the country’s top students in science and engineering. Badminton courts near the school’s east entrance ...
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 ...
News Medical

AI algorithm proves more accurate than experts in glaucoma detection

While artificial intelligence (AI)-powered screening has been validated for diabetic retinopathy, applying the technology to glaucoma has proved more challenging because glaucoma is not one disease. A ...
Wall Street Journal

White House Meets With New Colleges About ‘Compact’ After Rejections

The Trump administration is reaching out to more universities about its funding-advantage proposal after several early invitees rejected it. White House officials invited Washington University in St.
Inside Higher Ed

Brown Joins MIT, Rejects Compact

Citing multiple concerns, Brown University on Wednesday rejected an invitation to join the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” that the Trump administration proposed. The compact, ...
The New York Times

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements. By Alan Blinder Reporting from Providence, R.I.
City Journal

Elite Schools Like MIT Are Hardly Free Markets for Ideas

Earlier this month, the White House announced a “compact” under which universities would receive funding preferences in exchange for committing to basic educational goals. The compact represents the ...
Fox News

MIT rejects Trump admin funding compact, citing free expression concerns

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first university to reject the Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which would have given it ...