Forbes Daily: How Colleges Are Preparing Students For The AI Future
As AI reshapes the workplace, colleges are grappling with how to prepare their students.
At Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, thanks to a $2 billion gift from hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, that reshaping looks like a new campus focused on taking an interdisciplinary approach to solving big problems, like climate resilience. Other universities, like Purdue and the University of Florida, are experimenting with how to adapt their core education requirements.
Forbes looked into AI-inspired pivots at 12 of our 2027 Top Colleges—from those making AI literacy a graduation requirement, to creating more combination majors.
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President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine agreed to an “energy ceasefire,” though Moscow has not confirmed any such deal, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has since launched a “targeted strike” on a Ukrainian power plant.
Elon Musk once again became a trillionaire after a rally in SpaceX and Tesla shares, as his wealth being directly tied to volatile stock prices has taken him in and out of trillionaire status.
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