Free Thinking, where City AM’s Opinion and Features Editor Alys Denby takes you through the sharpest analysis from the comment pages of City AM. This week she’s joined by writer and City AM ...

One of the biggest obstacles to clear thinking is "cognitive entrenchment"—the human tendency to rely on existing knowledge and familiar solutions when faced with challenges. This is no surprise ...

Carrie Weisman is a seasoned journalist who has a deep love of words and helping the widest audience possible. Her ...

When Higgins tweeted Tuesday night for the first time in two weeks, it was just an emoji of a blue cap. What did it mean? Nobody knew, but the tweet had more than 500 replies within 20 minutes.

Analysis AI models like OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking can mimic human reasoning through a process called chain of thought. That process, described by Google researchers in ...

Reasoning models like o3-mini, R1, Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and xAI’s Grok 3 (Think) use more time and computing power before answering questions. The models break problems down ...

World Thinking Day 2025: Observed annually on February 22, World Thinking Day aims to enhance the lives of girls worldwide. It serves as a platform to raise awareness about issues affecting young ...

Generative AI tools can limit users’ critical thinking when doing tasks. People using generative AI also think less critically when they trust the AI to do a task, such as developing an argument ...

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