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I stopped fighting dense PDFs and let them explain themselves while I went about my day.

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My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study ...

A Nature-covered benchmark study found that top AI agents achieved under 40% accuracy on complex scientific reasoning tasks, compared to about 80% for human experts. The evaluation, called PaperArena, ...

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