July 2025

Why it matters: AI Interviews: Innovation or Injustice? explores the fairness, risks, and future of algorithm-driven hiring.

Why it matters: AI Use Raises Mental Health Concerns as experts warn chatbots may trigger emotional dependency and distress.

Why it matters: LLM Training Shift Powers AI Leap explores how new training methods like RLHF and instruction tuning boost AI.

Why it matters: India’s First Nationwide Cybersecurity Challenge launches to discover top talent and boost digital defense.

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Data and politics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Today’s political campaigns and voter mobilization efforts are now entirely data-driven. Voters, pollsters, and elected officials are relying on data to make choices that have local, regional, and national impacts. A Department of Political Science course offers students tools to help make sense of these choices and their…

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) is launching the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to advance the work of outstanding early-career researchers in health and life sciences. Supported by a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, the program aims to help apply cutting-edge research to improve health care and the lives of millions….

Why it matters: AI Revolutionizes College Search Process with tools that personalize, streamline, and simplify student decisions.

Why it matters: NAACP Sues xAI Over Racial Bias in hiring, spotlighting DEI failures and civil rights in the AI industry.

Why it matters: Kevin Roose: AI’s Media Gatekeeper explores how Roose shapes AI discourse through journalism and viral reporting.