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The Man Who Invented AGI

By Steven Levy
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Inside Dylan Field’s Big IPO—and His Even Bigger Plans for Figma

By Steven Levy
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

By Vauhini Vara
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When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru

By Tom Simonite
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The Secret Auction That Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy

By Cade Metz
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Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan

By Yi-Ling Liu
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One Man’s Search for the DNA Data That Could Save His Life

By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
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His Writing Radicalized Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them

By Andy Greenberg
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A Rocket Scientist’s Love Algorithm Adds Up During Covid-19

By Stephen Marche
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She Helped Wreck the News Business. Here’s Her Plan to Fix It

By Gilad Edelman
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How Courthouse Break-ins Landed 2 White Hat Hackers in Jail

By Andy Greenberg
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The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown

By Robert Peck
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How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic

By Andrew Leonard
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Could Trump Win the War on Huawei—and Is TikTok Next?

By Garrett M. Graff
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Screen Share: A College Teacher’s Zoom Journal

By Anne Fadiman
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The Country Is Reopening. I’m Still on Lockdown

By Maria Streshinsky
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Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution

By Kai-Fu Lee
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‘You’re Not Alone’: How One Nurse Is Confronting the Pandemic

By Elliott Woods
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How Much Is a Human Life Actually Worth?

By Adam Rogers
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The Pandemic Slams Main Street: ‘We’re Trying to Stay Alive’

By Garrett M. Graff
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The Relentless Startup Fast-Tracking Ford’s Self-Driving Cars

By Alex Davies
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Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup

By Shawn Yuan
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The Stockbrokers Of Magic: The Gathering Play for Keeps

By Cecilia D'Anastasio
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