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Uncanny Valley

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

By Michael Calore, Boone Ashworth, and Manisha Krishnan
Brain Race

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs

By Emily Mullin
Far Out

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

By Webb Wright
Tiny Bubbles

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year

By Ritsuko Kawai
Thought Experiment

Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

By Javier Carbajal
Flatter Bots

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

By Kyle Orland, Ars Technica
End Times

Inside the AI Party at the End of the World

By Kylie Robison
Good Trip

Apple Pioneer Bill Atkinson Was a Secret Evangelist of the ‘God Molecule’

By Mattha Busby
Life Support

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

By Emily Mullin
Big Talk

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

By Aarian Marshall
Apocaloptimist Now

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

By Miles Klee
Ring Road

Pebble Is Making a $75 Smart Ring

By Julian Chokkattu
AI as Kink

I Tried to Have Sex With AI Clive Owen

By Laura Kipnis
Recovery Mode

How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight)

By Emily Peck
Stoner Logic

People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

By Mattha Busby
Mission Statement

OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

By Kylie Robison