As calls for accountability grow in the Oregon school shooting, the state’s gun laws — shaped by liberal politics and ...

The New York Penal Law’s approach to voluntary intoxication is viewed by some as a “statutory loophole” requiring reform. Others view it as a “bright line” which impacts upon the likelihood of ...

The University of California Board of Regents is considering reinstating SAT and ACT requirements for undergraduate ...

Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 ...

After the UC stopped requiring the SAT, some professors say students are coming in with weak math and writing skills.

Ten minutes with ChatGPT is enough to measurably weaken a person's willingness to keep grinding at a hard problem once the AI is taken away, according ...

A peer-reviewed randomized controlled trial co-authored by UC Berkeley researcher Brian Christian found that just ten minutes ...

It's basically an article of faith in the conversational artificial intelligence (now agentic AI, I guess) world: You start by automating the easy stuff. You identify the high-volume, low-complexity ...

Mathematicians love to collect elegant, profound questions that defy proof: the longer the holdout, the better. And one day in June, groups from around the world gathered to do just that. The goal was ...

Day two of the University of California Board of Regents meeting. I was standing outside the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, waiting for the Student and Academic Affairs Committee meeting to start ...

Over the last five years, the number of first-year students who failed in calculus and preparatory math courses increased from 13% to 18%.