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Taking Care of the Father Who Broke My Heart
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Another Trump Case Falls Apart
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OpenAI Just Hired One of the World’s Best Mathematicians
TechnologyOpenAI Just Hired One of the World’s Best MathematiciansLast week, Jacob Tsimerman won a top math prize. The…
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The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
Per the Department of Agriculture’s preliminary data from April, about 37 million low- and no-income people in the…
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The AI Industry Keeps Breaking the Internet
AI leaders have promoted optimistic visions of a singularity, but recent incidents reveal significant data privacy and…
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Spider-Man’s Not-So-Great Responsibility
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Put a Lock on It, Fauci
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The Political Fight That Could Decide 2028
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Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (2023)
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The American Commentator Making Excuses for Iran
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Lindsey Graham’s Last Laugh
He recognized heady Washington status symbols when he saw them—including posthumous ones, such as big memorial…
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The Worst Way to Regulate AI
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Automation Led to Economic Misery. AI Doesn't Have To
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A Battle Over Female Ambition
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The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
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Is This What Comes After AI Slop?
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Is This What Comes After AI Slop?
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The War That Shall Not Be Named
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A Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party
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Photos: Wildfires Rage Across France and Spain
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An Odyssey for Our Own Time
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Another Symptom of Growing Isolation
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Reading the Bible in School Is Good
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How Netanyahu Lost America
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Would You Go Back to a Time Before Smartphones If You Could?
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The Preacher
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Christopher Nolan’s God-Haunted <em>Odyssey</em>
Odysseus, disguised as “an ancient old man” by the goddess Athena, tells Penelope that her husband will return to kill…
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The MAGA Movement’s New British Crush
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How to Be a Tourist at Home
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The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States
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A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
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The Mounting Cost of War
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How to Open Yourself Up to a New Passion
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Washington, the Useful Abolitionist
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Even Trump Can’t Spin This One
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The Ticking Clock on the Strait of Hormuz
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Public Health Needs MAHA
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Trump’s Trigger Warnings
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Saudi Arabia Learns the Limits of Pay to Play
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AI companies stripping universities of their best computer scientists
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Does Iran Have a Plan?
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Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
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Homer Was the Homer of the Zulus
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What Climate Fiction Should Accomplish
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Is AI the End of Cheap Tech?
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Tesla Is Failing Upward
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The Peptide Gold Rush Is Coming
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