Harvard is the single largest recipient of foreign money in American higher education, and if the disclosure law meant to track that money can be bypassed by routing it through a separate nonprofit, then nobody — not Congress, not the Education Department, not the public — actually knows who is funding research at the country's most influential university.
A House committee report accuses Harvard of co-authoring more than 140 research papers with Chinese universities tied to Beijing's military, while collecting over $600 million in Chinese funding, more than any other American school. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released the findings ahead of their public debut, detailing what investigators describe […] The post Congress finds Harvard co-authored 140-plus papers with Chinese military-linked universities appeared first on American Almanac .
A House committee report accuses Harvard of co-authoring more than 140 research papers with Chinese universities tied to Beijing's military, while collecting over $600 million in Chinese funding, more than any other American school. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released the findings ahead of their public debut, detailing what investigators describe as years of research collaboration between Harvard-affiliated scientists and institutions the Pentagon has identified as central to China's defense modernization. Committee Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican, paired the report with a blunt demand for the university to overhaul its approach to foreign research partnerships. Separately, Rep. Pat…Open
Banners hanging from Memorial Church on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg via Getty Images) by: Cherry Meigh Timbol • News Content Editor Published August 13, 2026 [...]
AI:Congressional investigations have uncovered deep-seated connections between Harvard University and the Chinese Communist Party, revealing that the Ivy League institution co-authored over 140 research papers with universities directly linked to the CCP military. This revelation follows allegations that Harvard utilized a nonprofit entity to circumvent federal laws requiring the disclosure of foreign gifts, highlighting an ongoing pattern of academic institutions acting as conduits for Chinese influence and intellectual property theft within the United States.Open
OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement. Why it matters: The program could help scientists, mathematicians and engineers pursue the kind of breakthroughs that OpenAI and other AI companies say the technology could enable. Driving the news: Those selected will have access to OpenAI's most advanced models — including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro — and can invite four collaborators from their academic institution. - The program is aimed at researchers across scientific and mathematical fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and physics. By the numbers:…
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