The Godfather of AI warns that cuts to universities will cost the US its AI edge over China

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Geoffrey Hinton

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I left quant trading to work in AI. Here's why I gave up a more secure career to join an AI startup.

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Varun Goyal joined an AI startup last spring after graduating from his master's.

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The 25 most expensive colleges in the US in 2025, ranked

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A person walks by the Trojan Shrine at University of Southern California in Los Angeles

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Inside the schools trying to break America's college obsession

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Students at Upton High School

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When Sam Johnson said he didn't want to go to college after graduating from high school, his teachers didn't blink.

Trump weighs taking $3 billion in frozen Harvard grants and giving the money to trade schools instead

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The Baker Library at Harvard University, where President Trump's war of words and funding continued on Memorial Day.

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The way Americans pay for higher education is changing

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The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

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Joe Gow
"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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Here's what the economy could look like with a Biden or Trump presidency

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have different plans for how they'd tackle the US economy if they win the November election.

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Unmarried Chinese women have found yet another way to get over the stigma of being single: Flee to the West and get another degree

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An Asian woman.

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Harvard's first Black president received so many death threats that police watched her residence 24/7, report says

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Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay.

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