Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

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In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

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If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...

On a recent transatlantic flight, Mark Ruddock, an entrepreneur in residence at GALLOS Technologies, decided to put his team of AI agents to work. He was 34,000 feet over the Atlantic with a ...

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