A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI models were too big and too costly to run anywhere ...

Ever since U.S. commandos removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power in January, Washington has piled unprecedented pressure on Cuba, Caracas’s beleaguered former ally. The island’s ...

A Book Soup staffer examines a major shift on the bestseller shelves: why some publishers are ditching 6x9 hardcovers for ...

From the unflinching investigative team behind Reveal comes a new weekly podcast that delivers More To The Story. Every Wednesday, Peabody Award-winning journalist Al Letson sits ...

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them,” a quote by the famous American writer Mark Twain, stands as a paradox of the country itself. There was a time ...

If any reading goals are at the top of your New Year’s resolutions list, chances are you’re already steps ahead of most folks. Americans aren’t reading much these days, and that’s relatively unchanged ...

Clara Pribadi is a "bit behind" on her reading goal for 2025. The 32-year-old from Adelaide/Tarntanya exceeded her 50-book goal last year. But as of November, she still has 10 to go. "This year I'm ...

As students across metro Atlanta are on winter break, many educators are focused on a familiar concern: how to keep kids reading once they leave the classroom. For Dr. Kirk Buis, a former teacher and ...

As Christmas approaches, it's time to prepare for a great but undeclared festive tradition: Not reading the many books we'll be kindly given as presents. While this is certainly not a new phenomenon, ...

In the digital age, when smartphones and social media occupy most of young people’s time, students’ reading habits are changing. Is the reading culture fading away or merely transforming into ...

American boys are being read to and reading for fun less frequently than in the past. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...