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Alison Luchs is a curator and deputy head of sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art/Instagram One museum curator is going viral for helping prove that art ...

In 2025, the A.I. frontier lab Anthropic mustered Claude, its large language model, for national service. Although the military-industrial complex is newly fashionable, Anthropic was not a natural fit ...

In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...