The novelist and columnist John Paul Brammer was asked recently how he can tell when prose was written by AI. His answer: A certain appetite for a certain style. “There’s this corny animism...

Most of what you believe about AI in research was true in 2023. That is the problem. The field moved. Our mental model did not. And the gap between the two is where good manuscripts and grant applications...

Last year, a very senior researcher gave me advice I still think about. NIH now caps a PI at six grant applications a year. “You’ve got 6 golden tickets,” they told me. “Use every...

Claude did it first. In January 2026, Anthropic shipped Cowork, an AI agent built for the “work around work” instead of just coding. It ran tasks in the background, followed you across devices,...