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Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

Ballot Bots

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Parasocial Studies

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Brendan I. Koerner

Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

The Big Interview

Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

Steven Levy

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Flux Capacitor

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Kathy Gilsinan

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Book Excerpt

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Rachel Lance

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

Tip of the Iceberg

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

David Kushner

He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared

Backchannel

He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared

Jenna Scatena

‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

Big Interview

‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

Virginia Heffernan

The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Immoral calculus

The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Leif Wenar

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

A Tale of Two Cities

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

Peter Guest

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

Attention!

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

Steven Levy

Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?

Snoo You Lose

Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?

Robert Peck and Paresh Dave

Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in Dune: Part Two—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL

Big Interview

Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in Dune: Part Two—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL

Hemal Jhaveri

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Change Your Settings

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Byron Tau

Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

Big Interview

Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

Lauren Goode

Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death

War and Peace

Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death

Vadim Smyslov

Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

Big Interview

Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

Steven Levy

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Ship It

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Virginia Heffernan

The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

Reset Button

The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

Jaron Lanier and Allison Stanger

2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

Book Excerpt

2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis