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In a post on X, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump didn't mix up Iceland with ...

There is little room for error in trying to stop measles. The virus is one of the most contagious, infecting 9 out of every ...

As for the AI bubble, it is coming up for conversation because it is now having a material effect on the economy at large. Some accounts estimate that AI is driving 90% of US GDP growth, while others ...

Prominent Liberal Andrew Bragg says it would be "absolutely ridiculous" to drop net zero entirely, as some conservative colleagues want. Bragg says the party should be focused on achieving the net ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...

A patent recently filed by Google outlines how an AI assistant may use at least five real-world contextual signals, including identifying related intents, to influence answers and generate natural ...

The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said Wednesday the White House is playing “some sort of weird semantic game” by focusing on his use of “attack plans” instead of “war plans” in his second ...

The film explores the complexities of meaning in language, highlighting three types: denotative meaning (the literal reference of a word), conceptual meaning (the ideas associated with a word), and ...

THE TYRANNY OF WORDS—Stuart Chase —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In 1914 a 26-year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be ...