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The Big Story

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

By Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, and Matt Burgess
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We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

By Garrett M. Graff
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‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis

By Lina Misitzis and Katie Thornton
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You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

By Afra Wang
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Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

By Yi-Ling Liu
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Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

By Will Knight
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China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

By Johanna Costigan
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China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World

By Jeremy Wallace
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She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back

By Olivia Cheng
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He Went to Prison for Gene-Editing Babies. Now He’s Planning to Do It Again

By Emily Mullin
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How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession

By Louise Matsakis and Rachel Zheng
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Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World

By Zeyi Yang
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How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts

By Nick Srnicek
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Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing

By Noah Shachtman
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True Patriots Are Cashing In on the Apocalypse

By Jasper Craven
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The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump’s Retro Coup in Venezuela

By Garrett M. Graff
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Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful

By Sloane Crosley
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DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To

By Jason Parham
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Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

By David Ferry
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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

By Andy Greenberg
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Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?

By Steven Levy
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The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution

By Manisha Krishnan
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The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem

By Casey Johnston
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OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

By Zoë Schiffer
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