Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Wednesday said he will resign from teaching at Harvard University at the end of the academic year, amid the continuing fallout from his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year," Summers said in a statement. Summers, also a former president of Harvard, has been under fire since the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing an ongoing personal correspondence between Summers and Epstein. Newton said Summers would remain on leave until he retires from his academic and faculty positions at Harvard at the end of the school year. Summers also resigned in November from the board of OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, after Harvard announced its review.

Source: The Telegraph February 27, 2026 04:08 UTC