After Nebraska used a new interRAI tool to slash Medicaid funding for nearly 900 people, NBC News uncovered the hidden logic behind some of the cuts.

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A rule from a 1979 IBM manual still applies to modern automation: computers cannot be accountable, so leaders must own their ...

Politicians on the left and right are watching how the New York mayor’s tactics play out in world’s center of capitalism.

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to ...

Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory. While ...

In today’s newsletter: Democrats aim to capitalize on voter frustrations with the economy to gain control of the Senate, victims of the Miami plane crash were in a cleaning-company van and an SUV, and ...