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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

A 2025 paper from Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley on frontier open-source LRMs showed that between 30% and 60% of their “thinking steps” had “minimal causal impact” on the answers the models produced to benchmark math questions. Chop half of them out, and a model’s performance barely suffers.
Mass Live

Lindsay Clancy admitted to killing her children. Prosecutors still have to prove it.

In criminal cases, prosecutors “often take care to build a strong evidentiary record that goes to the elements of the crime,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor.
Women's Wear Daily

Forced Labor Enforcement Is Tightening. Can AI Help?

Supply Trace, a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and Northeastern University, uses machine learning to map supply chains and expose Xinjiang-linked cotton risks, sparing her the tedious legwork that was keeping her up at night.
CBS News

This week on “Sunday Morning”: The Money Issue (Aug. 2)

Correspondent David Pogue checks out the facts about highly-targeted advertising, and why it sometimes gets weirdly specific with David Choffnes, professor and executive director, Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Northeastern University.

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