Four student-founded AI companies win Cornell Tech Startup Awards

The startups each won $100,000 investments during the university’s annual Startup Awards competition, held May 14.

New approach designs healthcare robots with, not for, the people who use them

A new Cornell Tech-led study invites healthcare workers, long-term care residents, and community members to help design the robots themselves.

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Oral GLP-1 medication helps patients maintain weight loss

Switching to the oral small molecule glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) orforglipron after taking injectable GLP-1s helped patients maintain most of their weight loss, a clinical trial involving Weill Cornell Medicine has found.

New laws cut cannabis arrests, but racial disparities persist

While recreational cannabis laws have significantly reduced arrests for cannabis possession and sales, racial disparities in arrests still exist, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and the University of Texas at Austin.

A new kind of cold sensor

All life forms need to continuously adapt to temperature changes to survive. Now, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators studying a bacterial protein have identified a new mechanism of sensing cold temperatures.

What does it mean to train an AI to speak like you?

Ultra-personalized AI for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user’s identity and can breach privacy, according to a study from a Cornell Tech doctoral student who trained the technology on himself.

Cornell Tech announces the 2026 Startup Awards and the Inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit

As the 2025–26 academic year comes to a close, Cornell Tech will host a series of events throughout May showcasing student achievement, entrepreneurship, design, and the future of emerging technologies.

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Reverse engineering ketamine’s effects may lead to new antidepressants

Ketamine, an anesthetic, can provide immediate relief to some patients with treatment-resistant depression, but the effects are often short-lived.

T cells secrete DNA to help immune system fight cancer

Activated immune cells secrete tiny capsules bearing DNA that can enter other immune and tumor cells to stimulate the body’s defense systems, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine.