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Vice President Kamala Harris has mentioned several times on the campaign trail that she worked at McDonald's while she was in college. Fact checkers haven't been able to confirm her claim, and McDonald’s corporate has not commented. But fact checkers on the right and left have taken different angles on the same facts of the story, fueling potential misinformation.

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The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact-checkers.” Object to them, and the left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as nonpartisan and devoid of opinion. “Fact-checking” is often an exercise in spin-spoiling. The most obvious example

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced its next major product release: An generative AI model code-named Strawberry, officially called OpenAI o1. To be more precise, o1 is actually a family of models. Two are available today, o1-preview and o1 mini, in both chatbot form and OpenAI’s API. o1 avoids some of the reasoning pitfalls that normally trip up generative AI models, at least according to

The vice presidential acceptance speech delivered by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took only 16 minutes. It started with plenty of biographical information about his upbringing in Nebraska and about his teaching, political and National Guard career in Minnesota. “So there I was, a 40-something high school teacher with little kids, zero political experience and no money running in a deep red district