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In the War Against Russia, Some Ukrainians Carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich Carries a Shopping List

By Samanth Subramanian
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Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier

By Gideon Lichfield
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Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears

By Geoff Manaugh
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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?

By Virginia Heffernan
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

By Vauhini Vara
Ideas

How a ‘Digital Peeping Tom’ Unmasked Porn Actors

By Kashmir Hill
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Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome

By Jennifer Kahn
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The AI Detection Arms Race Is On—and College Students Are Building the Weapons

By Christopher Beam
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Sundar Pichai on Google’s AI, Microsoft’s AI, OpenAI, and … Did We Mention AI?

By Steven Levy
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The End of Burning Man Is Also Its Future

By Alden Wicker
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Unhinged Conspiracies, AI Doppelgangers, and the Fractured Reality of Naomi Klein

By Kate Knibbs
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What OpenAI Really Wants

By Steven Levy
Culture

The Aftermath of a 'Miracle Cure' for a Rare Cancer

By James Tabery
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She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up

By Lexi Pandell
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How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth

By Camille Bromley
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Beauty Filters Aren’t Trying to Fool Anyone

By Charlotte Shane
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The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers a Warning, and a Cure

By Amit Katwala
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The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show

By Ngofeen Mputubwele
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To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test

By Ben Ash Blum
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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

By Gregory Barber
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Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks

By Steven Levy
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The Real Reason Steph Curry Is So Damn Good

By Hemal Jhaveri
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here

By Will Knight
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The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School

By Rowan Moore Gerety
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