AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers
US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Read more
Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Research Grants Sink Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump?
The Supreme Court has created a major hurdle for colleges seeking to preserve research grants that have been canceled by the Trump administration, including Harvard University. Read more
My Oxford Year is wrong to normalise staff-student romances
Netflix’s university-set romcom is strangely silent about the ethics of college tutors sleeping with their students Read more
Rise of ‘paper mills’: 32,700 fake scientific papers published in real journals, study finds
Before buying into the latest study splashed across the headlines, better check the source. Read more
Cancellation of Grad Student Teaching Roles Fans Union Fight at Columbia
The university is advertising the open teaching positions to adjuncts, postdocs and New York–based graduate students at other universities. Read more
An AI tool says it can predict students’ grades on assignments. Instructors are skeptical.
Students looking for feedback on their assignments typically go to office hours, join study groups, or share drafts with classmates for peer review. Now there’s a new artificial-intelligence tool that says it can do the same thing. Read more
The battle to save China’s rare snub-nosed monkey
Until the 1980s people roamed the mountains of Shennongjia in central China hunting monkeys for their meat and fur. Read more
For international students, it’s back to school but not back to normal
For some travelers arriving at Logan airport’s international terminal, loved ones with flowers or balloons await them just outside the door to U.S. Customs and Border Control. Read more
Chinese agency uses ‘blind spot’ to offer ‘stress-free graduation’
Concerns that services including ‘100 per cent course management’ pushed on Chinese-language social media are ‘largely invisible’ in West Read more
University of Utah eliminates more than 80 academic programs
University of Utah is eliminating over 80 academic programs, including degrees in modern dance and mining engineering, to reallocate $19.5 million toward high-demand fields such as artificial intelligence, nursing, and data science. Read more
