Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants(forbes.com)

229 points by hhs 1 year ago | 448 comments

Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture(texastribune.org)

178 points by apengwin 3 years ago | 102 comments

Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts(thedp.com)

299 points by strangeloops85 1 year ago | 584 comments

Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night. Seriously(houstonchronicle.com)

13 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 4 comments

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches(nbcnews.com)

99 points by wrxd 5 months ago | 85 comments

Arvind has died(news.mit.edu)

231 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 51 comments

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades(news.cornell.edu)

509 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 136 comments

Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

California bans legacy admissions at private universities(nytimes.com)

535 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 563 comments

New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework(dailycal.org)

197 points by romanhn 1 day ago | 305 comments

Daily Californian article reporting that UC Berkeley Fields medalist Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework because widespread student AI use made it pointless.

CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks(forbes.com)

22 points by iamnothere 8 days ago | 8 comments

Forbes article reporting that the CFPB has opened a debanking investigation into nine large national banks; the page showed an access-restricted error.