Among undergraduate business programs, MIT Sloan School of Management placed first in three categories: analytics, production/operations management, and quantitative analysis. The school placed second in entrepreneurship and second overall.

"We started hearing from friends around us that they have been using chatbots in order to obtain information about elections so we started thinking about, 'How does a chatbot that knows some information about you potentially change the information that it gives you with regards to elections?'" said assistant professor Chara Podimata. She created the Election LLM Observatory with MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Charles Stewart III. "I want the public to know that the type of information that each of us gets may be different from what our friend gets for exactly the same question," Podimata said.

A paper by assistant professor Anna Stansbury and co-author found that scholars whose parents did not graduate from college are less likely to land tenure-track jobs at major research universities and less likely to get tenure. The researchers found that the disadvantage of being a first-generation college graduate could be even greater than the disadvantages associated with being female or nonwhite.

A report out this week from principal research scientist Neil Thompson and co-authors set out to measure how AI is changing the economics of science in a variety of fields and, in the process, pointed to places where it still stalls. About 44 percent of scientists surveyed said that, over the past two years, their main research bottleneck had shifted downstream, toward later stages such as physical experimentation and data collection. Forty-one percent said their backlog of untested hypotheses had grown.

"All of them know that they're playing a bad game," said principal research scientist Neil Thompson. "This is a game where they know that if everybody continues to race as fast as they can, we're going to continue to accumulate these dangerous capabilities in a way that is a problem. But they also know that unilaterally they can't change that game."

Professor of the practice Gary Gensler joined CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss AI safety concerns, calls for a slowdown in AI development, the impact on AI IPOs, the state of AI arms race with China, what a regulatory framework could look like, his thoughts on the Clarity Act, the impact on the crypto industry at large, and more.

The MIT Sloan School of Management has been ranked No. 1 in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2027, securing the top position among 423 full-time MBA programs evaluated worldwide. The ranking recognizes MIT Sloan's strength across key dimensions including employability, thought leadership, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, return on investment, and diversity.

Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman has a book out that is something like the flipside of the everywhere millionaire thesis. "Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment" draws on a survey of more than 6,000 American adults and nearly 100 interviews with workers, employers and staffing agency professionals. A stunning 35% of the U.S. workforce, he found, falls into the category of what he calls "disposable" work—freelancers, contractors, gig workers and a category he calls "marginal workers": W-2 employees hired with the implicit understanding that they won't be around for long.

Professor Yasheng Huang wrote: "What Yang Jian (541–604) created was a system that outlived him, outlived his short dynasty (581–618), and then ran through the rest of imperial history and beyond. Keju is the imperial civil service examination, established in 587. If I had to name one thing that separates Chinese civilisation from European civilisation, I would name keju. Is it an exaggeration to say that Chinese AI capabilities and the trophies won at the Math Olympiad came from 1,300 years of doing problem sets again and again? I do not think so. You can credit, or blame, much of this to Yang Jian."

A review of New Zealand's monetary policy following the COVID pandemic by professor of the practice Athanasios Orphanides and co-author found that the economy "overheated to an historically extreme degree." They also found that a law change by the previous government giving the bank a dual mandate to support employment, as well as control inflation, also helped to steer decision-makers away from price stability, but noted it was one of multiple factors.