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They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Congressional Republicans aren’t warming up to using military action to take a long-sought prize of President Donald Trump: Greenland. The colossal, resource-rich arctic island reentered the Trump ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence is pretty good at taking law school exams, according to a growing body of research. Should it be used to grade them? Six law professors from across the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

This blog post and audio file is another in the series "Defending the Algorithm™" written, edited and narrated by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Business, IP and AI Trial Lawyer Henry M. Sneath, Esq. and ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Watch a subscriber-only conversation on if algorithms can ever be fair. Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers. Amsterdam tried using algorithms to fairly assess welfare applicants, but bias ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...