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Harvard Law Student Mark Lee Ditches Legal Career To Build $90M AI Company Fighting $3 Trillion Counterfeit Industry

Mark Lee once sat in a Harvard trademark class and learned that counterfeiting amounted to more than $3 trillion a year, roughly 8% of global trade, with the illicit market growing about 20% annually during the COVID-19 pandemic, powered by marketplaces and social media.

Benzinga

Harvard double doctorate shreds Donald Trump’s bizarre ‘Tylenol’ claim — because facts still matter

Once again, the Trump administration has turned its attention to everything except the nation’s real problems. This time, a common painkiller, Tylenol, has become the latest distraction from pressing issues like gun violence and the Epstein case.

The Mary Sue

US college rankings for 2025 are released amid a year of turmoil for universities

Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke’ universities had little impact on which big-hitters are jostling for the top spots in higher education

The Independent UK

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Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding to UCLA

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles

The Independent UK

Why Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years

Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is rebuilt every generation

The Independent UK

'Shocking': Astronomers find monster black hole growing at 2.4 times the theoretical limit

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit. Studying it further could help answer one of the biggest questions in astrophysics.

LiveScience

'Like trying to see fog in the dark': How strange pulses of energy are helping scientists build the ultimate map of the universe

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.

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As Gen Z hunts for career fire starters, these are the best MBA programs landing grads $150K+ jobs in tech and consulting

Gen Z may be skeptical of the higher education payoff, but LinkedIn’s new ranking shows elite programs like Stanford and Harvard still deliver career gold.

Fortune

Harvard Dropouts Behind Mercor Target $10 Billion Valuation As Startup Supplying OpenAI, Tesla And Nvidia Hits $450 Million Run Rate

Mercor, a startup connecting domain experts to technology giants like OpenAI, Meta (NASDAQ:META), and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), is in discussions with investors for a Series C round that could value the company at more than $10 billion, according to TechCrunch.

Benzinga

Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so

When the federal government threatened to cancel billions in research funds from Harvard University – as it has also done to other research universities – the message was clear: Institutions that speak or think in ways elected officials dislike can expect to pay a price.

The Conversation

OpenAI reveals how people use ChatGPT, and the results might surprise you

OpenAI just revealed the results to the largest ever study into how people use ChatGPT.

TechRadar

‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT Receives 29,000 Messages Every Second

OpenAI has partnered with researchers from Duke University and Harvard University and published a new study titled “How People Use ChatGPT.” It gives

Geekflare

My Remarks at the Harvard Vigil

On Charlie Kirk, violence, and speech.

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"Authoritarians in the Academy": The Present, and Future, of Authoritarian Censorship on Campus

My book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech was in… The post "Authoritarians in the Academy": The Present, and Future, of Authoritarian Censorship on Campus appeared first on Reason.com.

The Guardian - US

Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet

Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization

Benzinga

After Intel, Nvidia, Trump Administration Eyes Share In University Patents, Says Howard Lutnick: 'How Do We Not Get Our Money Back'

Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, suggested that the U.S. government might pursue a portion of the proceeds from patents created at leading universities with federal funding.

The Conversation

Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy

In an authoritarian state, the leader engages in unconstitutional or undemocratic practices for the purpose of consolidating power.

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Peter Thiel-Backed Fellows' Startup Mercor Targets $10 Billion Valuation As OpenAI, Meta, Tesla Turn To Its AI Training Experts: Report

Mercor, founded by three Thiel Fellows who dropped out of Harvard, is reportedly pursuing a Series C funding round targeting a $10 billion valuation amid surging demand from artificial intelligence companies for specialized training experts.

Axios

Exclusive: U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says

The administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.

The Guardian - US

In a Trump era, Black students flock to HBCUs, ‘where their history isn’t being erased’, says Spelman College president

Beverly Daniel Tatum on antisemitism, ‘the hardest in the US’, and DEI as the White House targets higher education

The Guardian - US

John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’

Last Week Tonight host looks into the administration’s attacks on universities’ public funding in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’

Axios

JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step towards run for Congress

Schlossberg would likely draw more attention to what is already set to be a hotly contested race in the media capital of the U.S.

The Guardian - US

‘Shout out to the girls’: US exit Rugby World Cup but young stars stoke hope for future

The Eagles thrashed Samoa but missed the quarter-finals on points differential. Nonetheless, a joyful display was fitting for a team showing encouraging signs

Evening Standard

Who is David Lammy, the new Deputy Prime Minister?

From a choral scholarship to being friends with Barack Obama, here’s what to know

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