When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

In late 2025, American households faced an extraordinarily unsatisfactory housing environment, marked by record-high prices and rents that outpaced income growth. The flawed policies that produced ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeated his warnings about America’s debt. The tech billionaire has predicted that financial trouble is inevitable without the transformative effects of AI and robotics on the ...

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie says lawmakers who’ve taken the Department of Justice up on the opportunity to view unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files are now running into a new obstacle. Massie, who ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

The world's shortest IQ test is just three questions long and can tell if you're smarter than 80 percent of the population. Called the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), it has been around since 2005 ...

Once I had Clairvoyance up and running, I asked it to perform a code review of WinUIpad and, over time, fix all the issues.

Christof Koch is a meritorious investigator at the Allen Institute in Seattle, Washington, and the chief scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica, California. Humans and other animals ...

Marius Borg Høiby pleads not guilty in court while pressure mounts against his crown princess mother over Epstein friendship There will be little to celebrate when Norway’s King Harald, Europe’s ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

The United States Justice Department on 30 January published nearly 3 million government documents related to Epstein, who was convicted in 2008 for soliciting a minor and died by suicide in custody ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the end of January, the Justice ...