That admission is what some in the field call recursive self-improvement (RSI), the point at which large language models ...

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That’s according to a November 2025 state audit of the department. The same audit shows the department also doesn’t know which schools – if any – more than 30,000 K-12 students in the state attend.

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As geopolitical tensions deepen and regional conflicts multiply, scholars and policy experts gathered at the 14th World Peace Forum in Beijing to examine a central question: Can stability between ...

The Office of Management and Budget is proposing sweeping changes to federal grantmaking that could harm American science, ...

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Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility was buried underground, sealed off from the internet, and protected by thick concrete walls, ...