The preschool boost

April 25, 2023
Children who attend preschool at age four are significantly more likely to go to college, according to an empirical study led by MIT economist Parag Pathak. To conduct the study, Pathak and his colleagues followed more than 4,000 students who took part from 1997 to 2003 in a lottery the Boston public school system conducted…

The startup CEO remaking City Hall

April 25, 2023
If you think of Michelle Wu as the architect of Boston’s new city government, then Tiffany Chu ’10 might be the general contractor. As the chief of staff to Mayor Wu, Chu is in charge of figuring out how visions of urban transformation actually take shape. Take the Thursday afternoon in early February that found…

MIT’s Putnam dynasty continues

April 25, 2023
MIT took all five top spots in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for the third year in a row and won the prize for the top woman for the fourth time in as many years. Seventy of the top 100 in the December event were MIT students, including 21 of the top 25. The…

A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4

April 25, 2023

A developer is attempting to reverse-engineer APIs to grant anyone free access to popular AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 — legal ramifications be damned. The developer’s project, GPT4Free, blew up on GitHub over the past several days after links to it from Reddit went viral. At present, GPT4Free provides — or at least appears to […]

A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4 by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered health coaching service

April 25, 2023

Apple is developing an AI-powered health coaching service codenamed Quartz, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The tech giant is reportedly also working on technology for tracking emotions, and plans to roll out an iPad version of the iPhone health app this year. The AI-powered health coaching service is designed to help […]

Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered health coaching service by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch