Why is Google hiding Gemini's reasoning traces? The decision sparks a debate over black-box models versus the need for transparency.

What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favor of expediency and security – and the naked show of ...

Cynical Theories isn’t quite Jordan Peterson–level caricature of postmodernism, but it is certainly fixated on the French deconstructionists. The likes of Wendy Brown, Nancy Fraser, Slavoj Zizek, ...

Given that the whole enterprise was premised on a dystopian vision peddled by politicians for their own ends we should not be too surprised that the report solutions are equally fantastical.

But that’s not enough for our anti-direct-democracy crowd. On the ballot in November will be Proposition 134, which would require that any group circulating initiative petitions get a certain ...

The only surprise in the guilty verdict against Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who was arrested in Russia last year on phony charges of espionage, was that it came so quickly.

Michael Shvo calls Core’s claims a “cynical ploy” to “litigate in the press” for a rent reduction and to get out of paying other bills, including for a $10 million construction cost ...

But eventually, as they grow, they become ugly, empty, cynical, and cruel, torn apart by power struggles and depravity. Enjoy the good things while they last.

They claim to fear the much-tougher ballot initiative will bring back the days of over-incarceration, which is legitimate. But as Los Angeles Times’ columnist George Skelton argues, “The party’s ...