7+ hour, 52+ min ago  (294+ words) This is where Murati's work comes in. Interaction models aim to smooth the human-machine exchange. The technical approach processes audio and visual signals directly with the result that an AI can register a gesture or a hesitation and adjust before…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (622+ words) After a talk in New York recently, a father leaned toward me as if about to confess something alarming. He had discovered that his teenage son had "done a little drinking" in college. Not reckless drinking. Not blackouts. Just the…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (561+ words) That raises three practical questions: What is regulatory independence? Does it matter? And if it weakens, what else should change? This is why debates over whether a president can fire commissioners miss the larger point. Removal protections are only one…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (409+ words) It was a promising project. Back in 2015, London-based Google Deep Mind attempted to improve the efficiency of the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Its initial effort was Streams, a smartphone messaging app that connected hospital blood labs directly to the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (349+ words) A primary goal of the report is to push Americans to think beyond pandemic learning loss. To put a finer point on it, the researchers renamed this year's report: Previous versions were called the Education Recovery Scorecard, but the authors…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (216+ words) A syllabus is not a compliance document. It is a set of ideas: a sequence of arguments, texts, questions, and disagreements a professor has decided are worth a semester of a young student's life. It is the closest thing the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (686+ words) There is a particular temptation that arrives with every major technological revolution. We begin by believing we are building tools. Eventually, we start reorganizing ourselves around them. That temptation is accelerating in the age of artificial intelligence. AI promises extraordinary…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (283+ words) Charles N. Kahn III In an earlier piece, I argued that a necessary path through America's health care cost crisis is to make sure we are buying right'paying for the right care, at the right price, with the right results. If…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (249+ words) If Judge Jorge Alonso's preliminary injunction against the government eventually becomes permanent, it would mean that Bondi and Noem hypocritically embraced a brand of jawboning President Donald Trump vigorously condemned in an inauguration-day executive order (EO). Here's what's happening in…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (170+ words) As millions of borrowers fall behind on their federal student loans'leading to ruined credit and significant losses for taxpayers'one type of school bears outsize blame for its contribution to the student loan crisis. Beauty schools that don't generate adequate earnings…...