Policies supporting specific industrial sectors are said to have sparked huge growth in East Asia, but new research suggests their impact on overall GDP growth is relatively limited.

Asians, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics were significantly less likely than whites to use obesity-management medications to lower their weight compared with whites. The differences could not be fully explained by income or education level, health insurance coverage or clinical need.

A new study by the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at TAU's Moshe Dayan Center, reveals encouraging data regarding coexistence in Israel. According to the survey, 57.8% believe that the ongoing war has fostered a sense of shared destiny between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

While large language models like ChatGPT can do well when choosing multiple-choice answers on financial licensing exams, they falter when dealing with more nuanced tasks. A Washington State University-led study analyzed more than 10,000 responses to financial exam questions by the artificial intelligence language models BARD, Llama and ChatGPT. The researchers asked the models to not only choose answers but also explain the reasoning behind them, then compared those text answers to those by human professionals. While two versions of ChatGPT performed the best at these tasks, they still showed a high level of inaccuracy with more advanced topics.