New study: Randomized trial of ~900 colon cancer patients found ppl in the intervention group had: - "significantly longer disease-free survival" - a 7%-point increase in overall survival after 8 years - dramatic reduction in new primary cancers The drug's name: Exercise.

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)

Here's one of the best profiles of me and The Anxious Generation, by David Shariatmadari in The Guardian. He shows the connection back to my earlier books and projects theguardian.com/society/ng-int…

Angela Duckworth gives a brilliant graduation speech at Bates: "Where you physically place your phone may be one of the most consequential decisions you make." Guard your attention. Not with willpower, but situation modification: Angela Duckworth youtube.com/watch?v=HxVsaN…

“By harnessing these machine learning technologies, countries in the MENA region have a transformative opportunity to democratize education and bridge the persistent divide,” write researchers Javaid Sofi Javaid Iqbal and Junaid Nabi Junaid Nabi, MD, MPH . thecairoreview.com/essays/artific…

#AI has the potential to change #EdPolicy forever As ⁦Javaid Iqbal⁩ & I explain for ⁦Cairo Review⁩, AI tools improved test scores for students by 0.31 SD for English & digital skills—something that could take 2 years without tech 📚📚 thecairoreview.com/essays/artific…

“ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.” ‼️

Damn, I wasn't ready for how this would feel. We didn't have a camcorder, so there's no video of me with my mom. I dropped one of my favorite photos of us in midjourney as 'starting frame for an AI video' and wow... This is how she hugged me. I've rewatched it 50 times.

Intermittent fasting has emerged as a popular dietary intervention, however, questions remain about its long term efficacy, feasibility, and effects on cardiometabolic variables. What can we learn from a new study? This Editorial unpicks the findings bmj.com/content/389/bm…

NEW WHOOP RESEARCH: EARLIER BEDTIME, MORE EXERCISE New Whoop research published in PNAS - the journal of the National Academy of Sciences -  shows a clear, measurable link between sleep timing and next-day physical activity: going to bed earlier significantly increases your

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

To be successful, it’s important to understand your comparative—and competitive—advantage 👇🏽

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

Read the insightful piece from Javaid Iqbal here: restofworld.org/2025/google-pe… 🤖

The era of superintelligence is here. Didn't predict the medical field would be first. Amazing work by team OpenEvidence in scoring a perfect 100% on the US Medical Licensing Exam

dude mark bertolini (ex- Aetna CEO, now Oscar CEO has an insane story here he talks about how after his skiing injury, he was in so much pain for 17 years that he went to switzerland to end his life, and then was told he could fix his pain went through neuroplasticity exercises

This video does a great job of explaining how LLMs work —

Our third annual TIME100 AI list features many of the leaders, experts, policymakers, creatives, and advocates around the world shaping the stories of artificial intelligence today. time.com/time100ai

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