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How China’s crackdown on Manus signals a new phase of techno-authoritarian competition — and how Washington should respond
A video game about running a rental store offers comfort in mundanity
After Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a claim for a purely "aesthetic injury" should fail
For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and applications is tested against that of individual humans completing tasks. This framing is seductive: An AI vs. human comparison on isolated problems with clear…
Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And yet we barely understand it. We don’t know what it’s made of or how it works or why it exists. But scientists and theorists have been trying to answer those questions, and have made some startling discoveries. The science writer Michael Pollan, known for books like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “How to Change Your Mind,” spent five years on the va...
Allegations of political insider trading are rife amid the war with Iran
The party cannot quite pin down its left-wing challengers
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