The U.S. healthcare system is hard to disrupt, not because it is irrational, but because it is the rational outcome of many overlapping decisions, incentives, and fears.

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

After three decades in the technology industry, across countries and cultures, I’ve learned that the way people relate to hierarchy has a huge impact on successful delivery. Some cultures treat ...

Researchers and executives at big AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google talk about AI-generated code a lot. Tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, and Google’s AlphaCode 2 have ...

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are ...

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OpenAI’s latest update makes it easy to turn your ideas into custom-built websites and apps that you can share with co-workers. Currently, only OpenAI business and enterprise customers have access to ...

What is the future of gene editing with CRISPR? Has AI changed mathematics forever? Will we find other civilizations in the universe? What if we’ve been wrong about dark energy all along? These are ...

The disrupters have been disrupted. After decades of upending industries with their coding, software engineers are now the ones on the defensive. Developers saw their roles change drastically ...

This week, one of the NBA’s youngest teams is squaring off against the New York Knicks in the Finals. And there is one big reason why. Victor Wembanyama has completely broken the San Antonio Spurs’ ...