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Quote of the day by Paul Krugman: 'Debt is one person's liability, but another person's...' - financial lessons and insights on role of debt in the economy, flow of money and growth of wealth by Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer of New Trade Theory

Quote of the day by Paul Krugman: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman sheds light on debt, emphasizing it's a two-sided coin. While a borrower's liability, it's a lender's asset, forming a crucial link in the financial system. This perspective reveals debt's productive role in economic growth, enabling investments and future returns,…

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The MIT professor who taught the math behind every AI tool for 61 years gave the world something most universities never would

Professor Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra for 61 years. His free online lectures, part of MIT OpenCourseWare, reached millions globally. These lectures made complex math accessible to students and professionals. Strang's clear teaching style and free availability of his work created a lasting educational legacy. His impact continues to empower…

The Economic Times

What If You Start Calling Yourself Jane Smith, and Sue as Jane Smith, Instead of Asking to Sue Under a Pseudonym?

Suing under a pseudonym can often be quite valuable to a plaintiff; for instance, someone suing over alleged mistreatment by… The post What If You Start Calling Yourself Jane Smith, and Sue as Jane Smith, Instead of Asking to Sue Under a Pseudonym? appeared first on Reason.com.

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'AI is a Perfect Excuse': MIT Expert Exposes How Tech Firms Use AI Washing to Mask Massive Layoffs

An MIT economist reveals how Silicon Valley firms are using AI as a cover for mass layoffs, reshaping the workforce narrative to protect stock prices and justify redundancies.

International Business Times UK

MIT scientists make lithium-ion breakthrough that could solve a global battery issue — new low-cost extraction method was inspired by a bathroom renovation project and could reduce reliance on China

Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium.

TechRadar

AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI—and the world doesn’t just need ‘people who know how to use powerful tools’

AMD CEO Lisa Su tells MIT graduates that knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough—and the impacts from AI are “actually our responsibilities.”

Fortune

AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'

"[AI] cannot make the hard judgment calls with imperfect information. It cannot take responsibility for the outcome."

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Boston Tech Week 2026 Opens Tomorrow: a16z Brings 572 Events to Kendall Square

Boston Tech Week 2026 opens tomorrow with 572 events across Kendall Square, the Seaport, and six other neighborhoods — registration is free for most sessions at tech-week.com/calendar/boston. The inaugural a16z-presented festival runs May 26–31 and brings together biotech, AI, deep tech, and robotics programming from over 80 founding hosts including…

International Business Times

What if AI could move your hand? Students build a wearable device using AI and electric pulses

The prototype system was developed in just 48 hours during a hackathon.

Euronews

Donald Trump has ‘better blood’ and has to tell people he is ‘real smart’ – he already told Thomas Massie thrice

“That means I have much better blood.”

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Florida triplets just pulled off the ultimate academic hat trick – same perfect GPA, same college, and one prank that fooled every teacher

These Florida triplets just pulled off the ultimate academic hat trick, and it’s one for the books. Aiden, Brody, and Colin Aysun weren’t just named valedictorians of their high school – they all earned the exact same perfect Grade Point Average. Now, they’re heading to the same college together, and…

The Mary Sue

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.

Tom’s Hardware

“I had to turn down President Obama”

Celebrating its tenth anniversary with a tech “take-over” of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, Publicis’ Maurice Lévy reveals why “not having a plan” was the only way to launch VivaTech, Europe’s biggest tech conference.

Fortune

Why I'm Cheering for This New Anti-Porn, Anti-LGBT, Christian Phone Network

Free market solutions for the win!

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'You deserved more': Instructure CEO apologizes following Canvas hack, admits company paid hackers to get stolen data back

Instructure CEO confirmed the company paid ShinyHunters to delete the stolen files.

MarketBeat

Rekor Systems Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

Rekor Systems (NASDAQ:REKR) said its first-quarter results reflected early benefits from a broad cost-reduction effort, while management pointed to stronger margins, higher recurring revenue and a path toward improved EBITDA performance later in 2026. Chief Executive Officer Robert Berman told inve

The Conversation

Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights

Researchers at MIT have suggested that rice seeds can hear the sound of rain, according to a new study. MIT calls it “the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature”. Perhaps surprisingly, the effects reported in this new study are not as radical as…

Tom’s Hardware

MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures — 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds

MIT researchers have developed a 3D-printed three-sided zipper that rapidly transforms floppy structures into rigid beams, robotic limbs, and deployable frameworks using triangular geometry.

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The Guardian - US

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

TechRadar

Top universities among victims named in Canvas data breach - MIT, Oxford and more all hit

ShinyHunters is increasing the heat on Instructure by listing all of the potential victims of the Canvas breach.

Space

How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process.

TechRadar

3D-printed Y-zipper turns from flexible to hard in less time than it takes to zip your fly

Researchers took a 40-year-old design and applied some software and 3D printing to bring the Y-zipper to life

TechRadar

'How else are people going to learn to do the job': MIT AI expert warns against automating Gen Z entry-level jobs

AI might be better than your entry-level workers for productivity today, but it could spell disaster for future employment.

The Times of India

Meet Apurva Shrivastava: Indian-origin engineer who turned a ‘missed call’ idea into $1 billion AI startup

In the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley, where billions are poured into chatbots and generative art, Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen decided to look where few tech founders go: the local HVAC company. That decision has officially paid off. Their startup, 'Avoca', has reached a $1 billion valuation following a…

Fortune

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

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