AI labs including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic are promising that artificial intelligence will cure cancer through protein prediction, drug discovery, and recursive self-improvement, but ske…
Large language models continue to fail at simple letter-counting tasks, such as identifying the number of R's in "strawberry" or P's in "Google," despite making rapid advances in complex scientific re…
The Commonwealth Foundation announced regional winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize on May 13, but multiple winning entries were flagged as AI-generated by the Pangram detection tool, wh…
A new poll by The Argument of more than 15,000 Americans found no evidence that social media drove the "vibecession" — the gap between positive economic data and negative consumer sentiment. The surve…
California's 2019 law requiring high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. led to students sleeping roughly 46 more minutes per night, with the share of teens awake before 6 a.m. falling 86%, acc…
A new poll shows Republicans’ favorability of the FBI has surged from a D+50 gap in 2022 to an R+34 gap in 2026, following President Trump’s installation of loyalists and removal of agents involved in…
Waymo self-driving cars are not racist, according to a review of cited research that found no evidence the vehicles are less able to detect people of color. A widely circulated claim from an Atlantic …
Democrats face a conflict between expanding high-quality government services and supporting public sector unions, as union policies that compress pay and protect poor performers degrade service qualit…