A new partnership between journalists and Stanford machine learning scientists aims to enhance the investigative reporting process. Here’s what we learned so far. As we approach the third anniversary of Panama Papers, the gigantic financial leak that brought down two governments and drilled the biggest hole yet to tax haven…

The year I set out to interrogate higher forms of computer intelligence to chase bad guys, the first lesson was a deeply personal one. “Hep!” the instructor yelled. I jumped from the platform, 22 feet above the ground, and held tight with both hands to the trapeze bar: a true…