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Model Behavior

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

By Kylie Robison
Uncanny Valley

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

By Michael Calore, Boone Ashworth, and Manisha Krishnan
Far Out

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

By Webb Wright
Brain Race

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs

By Emily Mullin
Thought Experiment

Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

By Javier Carbajal
masc off

The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook

By Miles Klee
Tiny Bubbles

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year

By Ritsuko Kawai
DIY Drip

The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

By Reece Rogers
Apocaloptimist Now

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

By Miles Klee
RIP-O

Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO

By Paresh Dave
Big Talk

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

By Aarian Marshall
Flatter Bots

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

By Kyle Orland, Ars Technica
Model Behavior

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

By Maxwell Zeff and Paresh Dave
Life Support

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

By Emily Mullin
Good Trip

Apple Pioneer Bill Atkinson Was a Secret Evangelist of the ‘God Molecule’

By Mattha Busby
Ring Road

Pebble Is Making a $75 Smart Ring

By Julian Chokkattu