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College Students Flock To A New Major: AI

7 décembre 2025 à 23:34
AI is the second-largest major at M.I.T. after computer science, reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here.) Though that includes students interested in applying AI in biology and health care — it's just the beginning: This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa. At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone "department of A.I. and society," which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like "A.I. and policy analysis...." [I]nterest in understanding, using and learning how to build A.I. technologies is soaring, and schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand. Over the last two years, dozens of U.S. universities and colleges have announced new A.I. departments, majors, minors, courses, interdisciplinary concentrations and other programs. "This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this," one 18-year-old told the New York Times. Their article points out 62% of America's computing programs reported drops in undergraduate enrollment this fall, according to a report in October from the Computing Research Association. "One reason for the dip: student employment concerns." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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Le Bénin frôle le basculement après une tentative de putsch

Le président Patrice Talon a affirmé, dimanche soir, avoir repris le contrôle du pays et des forces armées, quelques heures après que des militaires avaient annoncé l’avoir démis de ses fonctions. Les forces de la Cedeao et du Nigeria sont intervenues contre les putschistes.

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Des soldats patrouillent devant le siège de la radio-télévision du Bénin, après la tentative de coup d’Etat contre le président Patrice Talon, à Cotonou, le 7 décembre 2025.

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le bilan des bombardements dans l’oblast de Kharkiv dimanche passe à trois morts

Dix autres personnes ont été blessées, a fait savoir sur Telegram le bureau du procureur général d’Ukraine.

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Un soldat ukrainien lors d’un exercice militaire, dans la région de Kharkiv, (Ukraine), le 25 novembre 2025.
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