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The program for Cornell Tech’s 2026 Health Tech Summit is now live!

Check out the full program and see how we’re working to build the future of health tech: https://healthtechsummit.ai/2026-program

Get your tickets here: https://healthtechsummit.ai/tickets

Cornell Tech and @cornellbowers.bsky.social recently held the annual Cornell High School Programming Contest, in which 180 students from across NY, NJ, CT, and PA competed to solve five problems of increasing difficulty.

Huge thanks to the teachers and Cornell Tech volunteers!

Why do cars, housing and clothing cost much more than they did in the 1950s? It seems obvious that products will get more expensive over time. But that wasn’t always the case before the mid-20th century.

Why does everything feel more expensive today than in the '50s?

Professor @davidjreiss.bsky.social, a leading voice on housing policy, helps unpack this question in a @marketplace.org feature on the arc of prices, inflation & affordability in America: https://bit.ly/460GbAG

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Why Waymo is having a hard time stopping for school buses By trying to drive more assertively, Waymo appears to be adopting some dangerous human habits. 

Associate professor @wendyju.bsky.social was featured in @theverge.com this week, offering insight into the challenges autonomous vehicles face in complex environments, including school zones. @cornellbowers.bsky.social @cornellaap.bsky.social

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4bJONPH

As generative artificial intelligence continues to advance at breakneck speed, the legal industry is grappling with whether the technology will augment the work of lawyers--or replace them altogether. Last year, a seasoned appellate advocate conducted t... A Supreme Court Lawyer Replaced Himself With AI. How Did It Go?

Could AI argue a Supreme Court case better than a human lawyer?

Bloomberg recently spoke with law professor @jtlg.bsky.social in a video about what today’s AI tools can — and can’t — do in high‑stakes legal settings. @cornelllaw.bsky.social

Watch the full Bloomberg segment:
https://bit.ly/3O9twVN

Cornell Tech researchers are rethinking what support looks like in high‑stakes moments of emergency medicine.

“Robots can meaningfully support clinicians when every second counts,” says assistant professor Angelique Taylor. @weillcornell.bsky.social @cornellbowers.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4axQC02

Some companies tie AI to layoffs, but the reality is more complicated When Amazon announced it was cutting 16,000 corporate jobs, many assumed it was the latest phase of CEO Andy Jassy’s push to reduce the corporate workforce as AI brings more efficiency gains.

As companies increasingly blame layoffs on AI, professor Karan Girotra spoke with @apnews.com about the impact of early AI gains on workers.

Read the full story below:
https://bit.ly/46zAHgb

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Hosted by Cornell Tech and @weillcornell.bsky.social, the Health Tech Summit is back on March 2-3 on Roosevelt Island with the conversations, innovation, and people pushing the industry forward.

Tickets are officially live. Secure your seat. Get them here: https://healthtechsummit.ai/tickets

Applications are now live for Cornell Tech’s Summer Innovation Intensives!

This three-week experience invites high school students to explore AI, ethical coding, data science, and product innovation — all on Cornell Tech's NYC campus.

Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/48cr6gy

Congratulations to Shivani Kadakia and Anusha Kurma, recipients of the prestigious Class of 2026 Fried Fellowship in the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA program! This award honors their academic excellence and impactful leadership within the Cornell community and beyond. @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social

New research is offering new insight on how Americans move — all the way to the neighborhood level.

A new dataset, MIGRATE, maps annual moves with 4,600‑times more detail than standard public data, revealing patterns hidden in county‑level reporting:

https://bit.ly/49XSD6w

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

In a new @washingtonpost.com investigation into how AI companies acquired massive collections of books for training data, professor @jtlg.bsky.social offers a critical legal perspective on one of the most important copyright questions of the AI era: https://wapo.st/4bmo1g7

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Founders from Cornell Tech’s Runway Startup Postdoc and Spinouts programs shared insights on turning AI research into real-world impact at Building and Scaling Language Model Ventures in the Era of AI — from rapid advances to collaboration and ethics.

AI, Policy, and the Future of Care Take Center Stage at Healthcare Summit | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Even for an industry constantly in flux, these are trying times in healthcare. An estimated 22 million Americans faced having their health premiums more than double at the end of last year, per KFF, a...

@chethan.bsky.social, director of clinical innovation at Cornell Tech’s Health Tech Hub, contributed to an important conversation on the future of healthcare AI at @princeton.edu’s Systems Summit on Healthcare Transformation.

Learn more about the Summit below: https://bit.ly/4akfskT

California investigates Grok over AI deepfakes The state attorney general urges xAI to take action over the "shocking" material as Musk denies the allegations.

Professor @jtlg.bsky.social is featured in BBC News this week, offering legal expertise on platform liability and AI-generated content. @cornelllaw.bsky.social

Read the BBC piece here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwnqlpw7gxo

In a new @jnsorg.bsky.social op-ed, Israel Cidon, Director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion–Cornell Institute, underscores how the partnership between Cornell Tech and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has helped power NYC’s innovation economy: https://bit.ly/4bI6Cyw

Are you a student interested in a transformative summer experience? Cornell Tech’s Summer Innovation Intensives (July 13–30) blend college-level coursework, real-world projects, and NYC immersion.

Info Sessions:
Jan 25 (in person)
Jan 28 (virtual)

RSVP: https://bit.ly/3NhhNnQ

Meet Harald Haraldsson, who leads the XR Collaboratory — a hands‑on lab exploring the future of immersive design and multimodal 3D interfaces.

Learn more below: https://tech.cornell.edu/news/xr-collaboratory-harald-haraldsson/

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Computer science can help abuse and trafficking survivors regain safety Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End Technology Abuse.

Associate professor Nicola Dell is featured in @sciencenews.bsky.social this week, in a profile highlighting her leadership in researching technology‑facilitated abuse and her role in co-founding Cornell Tech’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse. @cornellbowers.bsky.social

Read more: https://bit.ly/4b51ZOP

The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms Collective Investment Algorithms (CoinAlgs) are increasingly popular systems that deploy shared trading strategies for investor communities. Their goal is to democratize sophisticated -- often AI-base...

Read the CoinAlgs paper, by lead authors and Cornell Tech Ph.D. students Andrés Fábrega and James Austgen, alongside other co-authors, here: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00523

Professor Ari Juels is featured in @forbes.com, offering expert insight into emerging risks as autonomous AI agents begin to control capital and influence financial markets.

Read the full story here: www.forbes.com/sites/jonhel...

Niamh O'Hara, CEO & Co-Founder of Biotia, shares how Cornell Tech’s Runway Startup Postdoc Program helped turn her research into a venture-scale company.

PhD grads: launch your deep-tech startup with funding from Day 1 in NYC. @cornelluniversity.bsky.social

Apply by Feb. 1: https://bit.ly/3JVdE7H

Law Schools Should Teach How to Integrate AI Tools Into Practice Opinion: Legal education and legal employers need to clarify the line between AI as a tool versus AI as a crutch.

How should the next generation of lawyers be trained for an AI‑driven world?

A new @bloomberglaw.com piece co-authored by professor @davidjreiss.bsky.social argues that legal education must evolve fast to prepare students to use AI responsibly and effectively in practice: https://bit.ly/49FJSN8

Join us for an upcoming info session to learn about Cornell Tech’s Summer Innovation Intensives — an immersive, 3-week summer program (July 13–30) for high school juniors, seniors, and first-year college students.

In person: Jan 25
Virtual: Jan 28

RSVP: https://bit.ly/3NhhNnQ

Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2026 Folding iPhones, home robots, mind-reading tech and EV supercars are all heading your way—along with AI-induced challenges in healthcare and cybersecurity

Professor Tanzeem Choudhury is featured in @wsj.com's annual "Tech That Will Change Your Life" report!

She highlights how AI tools grounded in evidence‑based mental‑health practices can expand access to care and improve outcomes.

Learn more: https://on.wsj.com/4pGFpiU

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Cornell Tech researchers developed an algorithm that can decode the numeric representations powering search & recommendation systems back into readable text—without access to the encoder—exposing a major privacy risk for companies & users. @cornellbowers.bsky.social

More: https://bit.ly/4qyMzqT

​Are you a recent Ph.D. graduate with a passion for entrepreneurship and an innovative startup idea?

Join us on January 21 at 5:00 p.m. for an in-person evening of networking and learning about the Runway Startup Postdoc Program at Cornell Tech.

RSVP: https://luma.com/ppabvpz2

AALS Announces 2026 Section Award Winners | AALS Lens The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is proud to announce the winners of its 2026 section awards.  The awards are hosted by several of the association’s 108 sections organized around various...

Congrats to professor @davidjreiss.bsky.social, who was honored with the Juliet Moringiello Mentorship Award by The AALS Section on Commercial and Consumer Law. This award recognizes his commitment to mentoring faculty in commercial & consumer law. View the full list: https://bit.ly/49pZpQR

Cornell Tech and @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social are proud to share that the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA has been ranked #4 on @poetsandquants.bsky.social’s 2026 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship list. 🎉

View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4aQX83B

Meet Charles Rodenkirch, founder of Sharper Sense, a startup launched through the Runway Startup Postdoc Program at Cornell Tech.

Hear how Runway took the idea from research to a real company.

Applications for the 2026 cohort are open. Apply by Feb 1: https://cornelluniversity.smapply.io/