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Better Netflix Recommendations Shift Viewing Toward the Middle Tail

An 8.5-million-user Netflix experiment finds that improved ranking raises engagement while moving recommendation-driven consumption from superstars toward moderately popular titles.

Aug 24, 20264 min2608.21274

ChatGPT Exposure Polarizes Political Slant While Reducing Hostility

A difference-in-differences study of 6.88 million Reddit contributions links probable LLM assistance to wider ideological separation but lower toxicity.

Aug 17, 20264 min2601.20238

Enterprise AI Use Spreads Across Roles but Varies Widely

Linked ChatGPT Enterprise records trace adoption, worker activity, and task use across more than 1,500 organizations and 17 million messages.

Aug 14, 20265 min2608.12236

Country Factors Dominate Global Trial Participation Inequality

Across 78,117 randomized trials, country-level factors explain 88.9% of variation in participation, outweighing disease burden and temporal effects.

Aug 9, 20263 min2601.04660

Indonesia Breaks the Usual Multigenerational Persistence Pattern

IFLS three-generation data and crisis exposure show a negative grandparent coefficient, despite parent-child education correlations above 0.5.

Jul 29, 20265 min2604.19969

Deep AI Adoption Reaches 11% of S&P 500

SEC 10-K disclosures separate operational integration from AI hype, showing total enterprise adoption rising from 5% in 2022 to 21% in 2025.

Jul 28, 20264 min2607.08920

Verifiable Screening Narrows Early-Career Callback Gaps

A 36,880-application résumé audit links discrimination to evaluative discretion, with gaps shrinking where jobs use more structured criteria.

Jul 28, 20265 min2604.01933

Rising U.S. Incomes Stop Translating Into Longer Lives

Population-weighted Preston curves show a post-2010 rightward shift without an upward shift, linking richer places to wider longevity gaps.

Jul 28, 20264 min2607.06427

LLM Orchestration Speeds Energy Crisis Model Integration

A provenance-tracked agent runs 16 existing models across five Hormuz scenarios and refreshes weekly without letting the LLM invent numbers.

Jul 28, 20265 min2607.23313

Delivery Disruption Cuts Trade but Concentrates Sellers

A 20% chance of failed delivery reduced efficiency by 70% while ratings noise left the experimental market largely unchanged.

Jul 28, 20265 min2607.24389