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Inside the rise of Alexandr Wang and Meta’s $14 billion bet that the MIT dropout will help bring AI supremacy

Wang turned Scale AI into a vital piece of the AI revolution, and briefly claimed the title of youngest self-made billionaire in the process. Now Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is paying up to bring him in-house.

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MIT researchers repair bridges by 3D printing steel onto corroded beams — Tech uses compressed gas to heat and accelerate powdered steel particles

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst worked with MIT researchers to create a cost-effective way to repair bridges and extend their lives until they can be replaced.

Tom’s Hardware

This millennial was rejected from 200 jobs—now he makes millions charging wealthy families six-figures to get their kids into the Ivy Leagues

Meet the millennial admissions consultant charging up to $750,000 to help students get into Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.

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World's 1st multimedia performance in microgravity will bring together Cirque du Soleil, National Geographic and NASA

Miami-based multimedia superstar Natasha Tsakos discusses this historic fall flight aboard Zero-G's 'G-Force One' aircraft.

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Using AI bots like ChatGPT could be causing cognitive decline, new study shows

A new study shows that using ChatGPT could mean “a likely decrease” in learning skills and could internalise “shallow or biased perspectives”.

Euronews

This is your brain on ChatGPT

MIT finds AI tools like ChatGPT can limit brain activity, impair memory, and decrease user engagement.

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Is Ironheart Iron Man's Daughter? Here's What We Know About the Upcoming Superhero Flick

Ironheart's upcoming series showcases her own journey, with no familial ties to Iron Man, but hopes for multiversal appearances remain.

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Does ChatGPT make you stupid? MIT study suggests people who rely on AI tools are worse off.

A new MIT study suggests that relying on ChatGPT can lower cognitive effort and lead to worse thinking and writing without AI assistance.

Windows Central

MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures

Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory have successfully 3D printed using a special type of glass-based filament they developed.

Tom’s Hardware

Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’

The agreement poaches the startup CEO from the company he founded, Scale AI, and doubles its valuation.

Fortune

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature’s Blueprints

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Meta bets big on start-up Scale AI with €12 billion investment and hires its co-founder

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

Euronews

Meet the vaccines skeptics that are now part of RFK Jr.’s vaccine approval committee

The Health and Human Services leader made shock waves when he dismissed all 17 former members on Monday

The Independent UK

Why Was Senator Alex Padilla Handcuffed? Net Worth, Family, Career, Photos and More

Alex Padilla, US Senator from California, is a vocal advocate for mental health reform, with a modest net worth and a long-standing career in public service shaped by his family's immigrant roots.

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Move over, Rolls-Royce – America’s first homegrown ultra-luxury vehicle in almost a century is here to steal its crown

With styling inspired by 1930s Streamliner cars and an all-natural interior, Dacora wants to take on the biggest names in the luxury car business.

LiveScience

Star-shaped brain cells may underpin the brain's massive memory storage

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and someday, it could inspire advances in AI and Alzheimer's research.

Caixin Global

Weekend Long Read: Remembering Luminary Economist Stanley Fischer

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

International Business Times UK

Brittney Griner Misquoted: Stephen A. Smith Criticizes WNBA Star Over Satirical Quote

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.

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The Conversation

Harvard battle is Trump’s ‘Mao moment’: lessons from China’s state-sanctioned university crackdown

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…

The Guardian - US

MIT class president barred from graduation after speaking out on Gaza

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

Latin Times

MIT Commencement Speaker Banned From Graduation Ceremony After Giving Pro-Palestine Speech

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.

LiveScience

Physicists capture 'second sound' for the first time — after nearly 100 years of searching

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.

Fortune

Trump is killing the goose that laid America’s golden eggs

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

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“CBS ran an ad that said, ‘6 million people have heard the sound of his guitar. Let us introduce you to him…’ That made a huge rift”: Barry Goudreau was there from the beginning of Boston –but has regrets about how things ended with Tom Scholz

Gibson wielder, who always preferred Marshall to Scholz’s Rockman brand, recalls being edged out but not caring at first, until it led to an angry split and legal repercussions

Fortune

Startup working on 'reversible computing' chip says initial tests show a 50% energy savings

Vaire says its chips could be the key to solving the challenge of AI's massive electricity demand

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