A new study in *PNAS* argues that social media negativity is driven not only by attention-seeking algorithms, but also by a psychological motive called differentiation: the desire to stand out from ot
The paper explores whether long text can be compressed by converting it into an image and feeding that image to a multimodal LLM instead of sending all text tokens directly. The key idea is that visio
A new analysis of more than 40 million academic papers suggests that AI tools are reshaping science in two opposing ways. On the one hand, researchers who use AI publish more papers, earn more citatio