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Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Study after study has revealed that artificial intelligence is adversely affecting students’ ability to think critically, solve problems, and formulate their own ideas without the assistance of ...

A high-tech executive I coached, Anna*, was told she had a “blind spot” just a year into her role. Her CEO admired her decisiveness, respected her clarity, and valued her confidence. At the same time, ...

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Julia R. Cartwright is a senior research fellow in law and economics at the American Institute for Economic Research. America’s housing shortage has a cruel truth at its center: The people who need it ...

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