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Where Are All the AI Drugs?

By Veronique Greenwood
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The Enshittification of American Power

By Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman
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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

By Matt Reynolds
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

By Sam Apple
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The Definitive, Insane, Swimsuit-Bursting Story of the Steroid Olympics

By Amit Katwala
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How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever

By Steven Levy
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The Blind Leading the Gamers

By Dexter Thomas
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What Really Happened in the Aftermath of the Lizard Squad Hacks

By Joe Tidy
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Demis Hassabis Embraces the Future of Work in the Age of AI

By Steven Levy
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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

By Andy Greenberg
Business

The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

By Karen Hao
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3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches

By Raksha Vasudevan
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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

By Kate Knibbs
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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet

By Kate Knibbs
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Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode

By Steven Levy
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North Korea Stole Your Job

By Bobbie Johnson
Culture

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

By Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson
Culture

Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is

By Bonnie Tsui
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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

By Steven Levy
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

By Sheon Han
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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

By Claire L. Evans
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Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers

By Jason Kehe
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The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

By Amit Katwala
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Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

By Will Knight
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