Yet these howlers, and others, have given rise to the charge that, far from being all-knowing, The Economist is so reliably ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

The idea is that tearing down walls and having everyone work side by side will increase conversation between workers and ...

The core problem is the interaction of three things happening simultaneously,” explains Hannah Jones, senior ...

The instinct to add AI everywhere, to make every feature "smarter," can lead to products that feel innovative but are hardly ...

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

This year, for the first time in the 11 years that Lean In and McKinsey have tracked women in corporate America, they reported an “ambition gap.” Eighty percent of women said they wanted to be ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Stripped of careful phrasing, the logic is familiar: Some students are deficient, fixing them is costly, ...