Nearly a quarter of Harvard Business School’s 2024 M.B.A. graduates remained jobless three months after graduation, highlighting deepening employment challenges at elite U.S. business schools. The unemployment rate for Harvard M.B.A.s rose to 23% from 20% a year earlier, more than double the 10% rate in 2022. Major employers including Read more…
OpenAI’s “reasoning” AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to provide an explanation, AI experts have proposed a few theories. Several on Read more…
The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehicle software from “countries of concern.” The rule could have wide-ranging effects on big automakers, like Ford and GM, as well as Read more…
Academia is in a credibility crisis. A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts. To understand the roots of this problem, we must look at the role of metrics in evaluating the academic performance Read more…
More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates have signed an open letter calling for “moonshot” efforts to ramp up food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe. The coalition of some of the world’s greatest living thinkers called for urgent action to prioritise research and technology to solve Read more…
U.K. public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could be banned from making ransom payments under new proposals from the U.K. government. The U.K.’s Home Office launched a consultation on Tuesday that proposes a “targeted ban” on ransomware payments. Under the proposal, public sector bodies — including local councils, schools, and Read more…
Meta is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based eliminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to a company memo. As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5% reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs. “I’ve decided to raise the Read more…