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

Ben Ash Blum

big interview

Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets

Steven Levy

Post-Docs

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

Gregory Barber

Big Interview

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

Steven Levy

Big Interview

The Real Reason Steph Curry Is So Damn Good

Hemal Jhaveri

Bot Voyage

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

Will Knight

What Lies Beneath

The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School

Rowan Moore Gerety

Reality Check

Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders

Chris Colin

Burn Notice

The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

Megan Greenwell

Backchannel

Boots Riley Says a ‘Gentler Capitalism’ Won’t Save Society

Jason Parham

Boom Times

How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Maria Streshinsky

READY TO RUMBLE

How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm

Cody Cassidy

altered egos

The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood

Rachel Nuwer

bing it on!

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI

Steven Levy

Follow Limit

‘Building a Platform Like Twitter Is Not Difficult’

Brendan I. Koerner

GEL ON EARTH

The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom

Amy Martyn

The Big Interview

It’s the Age of Ozempic. Do We Need WeightWatchers Anymore?

Lauren Goode

Depth Charge

The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World

Gregory Barber

The Big Interview

Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang

Virginia Heffernan

Tipping Point

Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution

Malcolm Harris