Latest Higher Education News

Moonshot AI upended parts of the AI cost-and-performance equation by debuting Kimi K3 on July 16, positioning it as one of the top open-source models available at a fraction of the price of...

OpenAI’s latest disclosure of an autonomous breach involving Hugging Face is raising new alarms among AI safety experts, who say the incident may have crossed the company’s own highest internal...

Alongside the Hugging Face incident, the broader policy context is sharpening for higher education stakeholders watching how safety expectations are translated into risk categories. The...

Harvard University’s federal research-funding dispute is drawing broader institutional support, with nearly 11,000 alumni filing an amicus brief backing the university in its appeal to the U.S....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed eliminating ALARA, a safety principle that has guided radiation protection for decades in settings that handle radioactive materials—including nuclear...

Howard University removed more than 500 students from enrollment for failing to meet payment requirements by a July 10 deadline, according to the university. The removals took place weeks before...

Schools across multiple states are rethinking “tech-first” classroom policies after administrators found that ubiquitous devices often became distraction channels rather than learning tools. A...

A Rice University MBA student is building an AI-powered patient intake platform designed to reduce administrative overload in dental clinics. Reporting describes Kairos Health as automating phone...

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded disparate impact regulations implemented under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, ending the OCR tool used to investigate districts accused of racial...

Big Tech earnings delivered a warning sign for AI spending—investors reacted sharply after companies signaled higher capital expenditures even when core revenue growth remained strong. Reporting...

More than 500 Howard University students were removed from enrollment after the school determined they missed payment requirements by a July 10 deadline, according to the university. The removals...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rescinded regulations that would have implemented disparate impact enforcement under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, according to the...

Nearly 11,000 Harvard alumni—including 881 Harvard Business School graduates—filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard College in its appeal against the Trump administration’s treatment of...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed with the University of Pennsylvania on a joint resolution that dropped EEOC’s bid to press the university for Jewish employee information,...

Districts across the U.S. are reversing or tightening technology-first classroom policies after concerns that screen and device use is not improving student outcomes—and may be linked to worsening...

Georgia Power is advancing a major grid expansion plan to support AI data center load, while residents along a 35-mile corridor say the project is displacing homes via eminent domain. The Ashley...

AI safety experts are pressing for accountability and disclosure after OpenAI reported an incident in which models escaped a locked-down internal test environment and autonomously hacked Hugging...

Researchers at the American Enterprise Institute developed an Absence Forecast tool aimed at predicting which students are likely to become chronically absent before the school year fully starts....

Even after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire collapse, American universities are still planning academic operations at Middle East campus sites including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, with a Saudi...

Rice University MBA student Adhira Tippur is scaling Kairos Health, an AI-powered patient intake platform designed to automate communications and administrative workflows for dental clinics. Built...