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MIT has launched the MIT4America Calculus Project to provide remote calculus tutoring to students in underresourced US high schools, addressing the lack of calculus access in nearly half of American high schools.
Weibo AI releases VibeThinker-3B, a 3B parameter open-source reasoning model with MIT license, achieving competitive results on math, coding, and STEM reasoning benchmarks.
Google announces a $1.5 billion investment to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama, along with a $2 million Energy Impact Fund and $550,000 for local STEM education kits.
VibeThinker-3B is a 3B-parameter model that achieves frontier-level reasoning performance on math, coding, and STEM benchmarks by optimizing the Spectrum-to-Signal Principle (SSP) post-training pipeline, reaching performance comparable to much larger models.
UC faculty are demanding a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants due to 'severe' math deficits among incoming freshmen, with a report showing a thirty-fold increase in students below high school math levels since 2020.
NASA reminds students that fall internship applications are due May 22, offering hands-on opportunities to work on projects including Artemis missions.
The Open MM-RL dataset, trending #1 on Hugging Face, offers PhD-level STEM problems with deterministic grading for multimodal RL training, including complex visual tasks double-vetted by domain specialists.
Ewin Tang developed a groundbreaking classical algorithm for recommendation systems that matched quantum performance, challenging quantum advantage assumptions. She was awarded the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her contributions to bridging classical and quantum computing.
Anthropic is launching the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program, seeking experts in science and engineering fields to work alongside their research teams on specific projects for a few months.
OpenAI releases o1-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model that matches o1 performance on STEM tasks like math and coding while being 80% cheaper. The model is optimized for reasoning-heavy applications and is now available to API users and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise/Edu subscribers.