Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
Altman continued touting OpenAI’s commitment to safety, especially when potential recruits were within earshot. In late 2022, four…
Russia Is Swarming Europe with Young Agents
Illustration by Álvaro Bernis Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out arson and other…
Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
Just before 2 P.M., at a gas station near the city of Panevėžys, in northern Lithuania, officers raided…
The Best TV Shows in a Bad Year
How much TV does our TV critic watch? Inkoo Kang reveals how she picks her favorites of the…
The AI Gap is Widening
De Bellefonds agrees, and that catching up isn’t a competition for the “highest number of use cases.” That’s…
Taylor Swift Sounds Stuck | The New Yorker
Taylor Swift might not be capable of making a bad record, but “The Life of a Showgirl” is…
Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?
The following week, I drove west from Miami toward the Gulf of Mexico—Trump’s “Gulf of America.” After the…
“The United States Is In a Speech War”
At the end of another tumultuous week, we’re discussing the indictment against Trump’s longtime political foil James Comey,…
There’s No Easy End to the War in Ukraine
It wasn’t a “worst-case scenario,” Joshua Yaffa says of yesterday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr…
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Lily Wood is forty-three years old but considers April 9, 2019, to be her “rebirth day.” That was…