A biology professor recently wrote to me after reading How AI is Colonizing the Mind and mentioned something she noticed in her own thinking. Decades after her first undergraduate course, she still ...

Long before computers, humans encoded procedural knowledge as branching "if-then" rules, from divine omens to long division. This video traces how the simplest logical structure became the foundation ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

March 20, 2026 - For years, businesses have used algorithms to set prices across a variety of markets. Increased adoption and sophistication as a result of large data sets and advances in machine ...

A few years ago, Jenny Martin started taking brief “thinking walks.” The habit was partly born of necessity—she has two young kids, a busy therapy practice, and a brain that doesn't easily quiet ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a "50 Years of Thinking Different" letter, ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026. The letter touches on the upcoming 50th anniversary and says that ...

With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological ...

The rapid proliferation of algorithmic systems has sparked widespread concerns about their potential to perpetuate and amplify social biases, exacerbate inequalities, and erode human autonomy. In this ...

Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that studying liberal arts or the humanities is a waste of time or, at the very least, hardly the most sagacious path for college students to ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...