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What’s happening right now — and what it actually means.

Research suggests AI may not take your job directly — but people who learn to use it well may quietly become harder to replace

Research suggests you may not be bad at languages — you may just be trying to learn them in the least motivating way possible

Research suggests your brain may already know when an old pattern is no longer helping you — here is how to start listening before you repeat it again

10 good news stories that made us grateful for scientists, neighbors, rescuers, teachers, animals, and stubbornly decent strangers

Anthropic spent two months deciding whether it was responsible to release an AI that can find vulnerabilities in every major operating system — yesterday it released it anyway, under a different name

An internal Meta memo said the company planned to launch facial recognition during a moment of political distraction because civil society groups “would have their resources focused on other concerns”

Tasks that used to require a team of engineers can now be handed to Claude Opus 4.8 in plain language — and the companies that understood that first are already restructuring how they hire

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A scoping review of retirement research found eight ways it reshapes family life — and gender shapes how each one plays out differently for men and women

A survey of over 2,000 Americans found the average adult is spending less time with friends, relying on them less, and — for many men — may have none at all

Research suggests DNA hidden in dirt is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about our ancient ancestors