This week, Geraint Rees attended the U7+ Presidential Summit at Università Bocconi.

The U7+ Alliance is an international coalition of university leaders who meet to engage in discussions and agree on concrete action to address pressing global challenges.

#U7Alliance

Interesting!

Fine porcelain maker Maruwa becomes the hottest bet for cooling AI data centres ft.com/content/250bc8… via @ft

Watch Dr Michael Collins UCL History in conversation with SI-UK India as he discusses the importance of UK-India partnership in higher education and offers tips for Indian students studying in London and the UK 🎓

#UCLandIndia 🇮🇳 UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳 UCL Global Engagement

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Ready or not, AI is coming to science education — and students have opinions nature.com/articles/d4158…

mRNA drug offers hope for treating a devastating childhood disease nature.com/articles/d4158…

Cheryl Moore to leave Wellcome in April%20%40wellcometrust wellcome.org//news/cheryl-m…

uh-oh

Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use nature.com/articles/d4158…

This fMRI technique promised to transform brain research — why can no one replicate it? nature.com/articles/d4158…

These Scientists Rock. Literally. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/09/sty…

Drugmakers race to find alternative suppliers as US cracks down on Chinese biotech ft.com/content/bfe487… via @ft

Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point ft.com/content/499c89… via @ft

Congratulations to all my fabulous colleagues!

UCL retains top global ranking for education and architecture & built environment | UCL News - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/apr/…

We're excited to share that The Bartlett has been ranked #1 in the world in Architecture and the Built Environment for the second year in a row by QS World University Rankings.

We also remain #1 in the UK for the tenth year running!🎉 UCL
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

Has a society transformed your time at UCL?

Or maybe your coach has gone above and beyond?

Do you know a volunteer who has worked their socks off?

Nominate them for an End of Year Award! Nominations close Fri 12 April at 12pm 🏆

studentsunionucl.org/awards

It turns out the data bottleneck problem is more dire than initially thought:

AI model performance - which can be largely attributed to the presence of test concepts within their vast pretraining datasets - increases linearly with exponentially more data.

RIP: Scaling laws

We are delighted to announce that 3 of our academic disciplines have achieved positions within the Top 10 globally in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024🤩

🌟UCL Institute of Archaeology(3rd)
🌟UCL Anthropology (4th)
🌟UCL Geography (7th)

#QSWUR QS World University Rankings

OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’ ft.com/content/78834f… via @ft

Britain must act or lose the global medicines competition ft.com/content/b7fc88… via @ft

Great to see this level of transparency and analysis from the largest funder of research in the UK

UKRI publishes updated diversity data and analysis for 2021 to 2022 ukri.org/news/ukri-publ…

If you’re a student at UCL, you can watch your team take part in tonight’s Series Finale of #UniversityChallenge against Imperial College London by heading to the IOE Bar

A big crowd is gathering for a memorable night. Show begins at 20.30 BBC iPlayer / BBC Two - but get there early!