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I'm an artist who also curates exhibitions. Most of my friends are other artists, who often want to be included in the shows I put together. Increasingly, I can't tell who my friends really are ...

In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Forty-three ...

California’s slow ballot count isn’t just a political disgrace. It’s also a symbol of how California does everything: late, if at all. The high-speed rail was approved in 2008, to connect San ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

America's nuclear boondoggle may be coming to an end, as the Department of Energy looks to deploy a new generation of nuclear reactors. Although the U.S operates 98 gigawatts of nuclear capacity, high ...

I recently spoke with a friend at a large company who had just finished another AI pilot review. The pilot went well. The tool summarized documents, drafted follow-ups, extracted action items and made ...

The company’s status page reports issues with latency and increased errors across its API, going back just about one hour now. OpenAI says that a mitigation strategy is currently in place. In addition ...

Earlier this fall, I published an op-ed raising concerns about discrepancies in NASBA's publicly reported 2024 CPA Exam performance data in "The NASBA Report: Candidate Performance on the Uniform CPA ...