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Scale AI has helped major tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft prepare the data they use to train AI models.

The MIT professor helped shape the foundations of New Keynesian economics and influenced generations of economists and policymakers

Stephen A. Smith mistakenly slammed Brittney Griner over a fake quote from a parody account. The incident highlights how quickly misinformation spreads online — and why digital literacy matters more than ever.

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary…

Megha Vemuri gave speech the day before commencement, condemning the university’s ties to Israel

MIT's 2025 class president and her family were banned from the university's graduation ceremony after she spoke against the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinian people.

First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly observe. Now, a new technique has finally done it, and could be used to study neutron stars and high-temperature superconductors.

U.S. competitiveness has always depended on its universities' openness to talent and commitment to research.