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An essay exploring how AI and the internet have made information free, questioning the future role of physical college campuses—and highlighting India's counter-trend of expanding and hosting foreign university campuses focused on belonging, mentorship, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Universities are promoting the fact that their AI models are not surpassing their researchers, highlighting limitations and comparisons in academic AI performance.
A mathematics professor ponders AI's future impact on universities, weighing human teaching against AI replacement and emphasizing the need for human skills to contextualize AI output.
Paul Graham argues that universities should prepare founders by teaching building skills in subjects like computer science and engineering, and by fostering a culture that encourages starting startups, rather than focusing on entrepreneurship curricula.
Universities are selling or developing land for AI data centers, as seen in GW's $427 million campus sale to Amazon and Michigan's $1.25 billion computing center, raising concerns about higher education's priorities and a potential brain drain.
A new NBER study of 14 million Chinese patents finds Chinese universities now drive over a quarter of critical-technology patents, far outpacing U.S. universities, and that Chinese patent quality has converged with American levels — challenging assumptions about U.S. tech leadership.
A study from King's College London reveals that hospitals and universities are conducting late-stage clinical trials for repurposing generic drugs at less than 10% of pharmaceutical companies' costs, offering affordable treatments for conditions like blindness, cancer prevention, and Covid.