The Report Card for an AI Playing Student
StudentSim offers a rehearsal for AI tutors. Its response to a lesson still needs a human counterpart
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The Calendar Kept in the Fastest Room
Anthropic’s staff expect a far faster 2030 than the American public does. On one key link, the company’s own survey finds the two groups reasoning alike—from very different rooms
When the Safeguard Goes Quiet
A Google lab puts a verification layer between AI agents and its robots. Crash investigators have spent decades arguing over what the person behind such a layer needs from it
Autonomous Robots Need a Disconnection Plan
A robotics API and a Canadian network outage bring a practical question into focus: what work can continue when a connection fails, and what must stop?
Who Corrects the 722?
OpenAI withdrew three of its machine-written math manuscripts and said so. The number it first published lives on in other people’s copies—one of them mine
The Detector Is Part of the Discovery
Francis Halzen’s Nobel puts the making and keeping of an observatory in view
Does “Too Fast” Mean No to AI?
A U.S. survey measures concern about development’s pace, but never asks whether respondents want AI itself
When Writing Is Cheap, the Gate Counts the Reader’s Hours
arXiv and GitHub both put a number at the door this month. Neither number measures quality, and neither platform has said what it costs the people who were never the problem
Equal to Water — by Definition
What the “equivalence” verdict in a two-year diet-drink trial actually measured
The tool ships, the map doesn’t
AI is already in the office. What workplaces and one experiment say about why people still hesitate
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