I’ve been sitting in a new office, in a new house, in a new town for a few months now. My spouse has the gift of gathering and pinning and placing until strangeness fades and a home materializes ...

Today we look at the state of American inertia. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. American history is full of transformative industrial, technological and architectural innovations.

Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and maybe more. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco On a recent afternoon, ...