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Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. They’re out this…
Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many…
Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds
Before being fired five days into her stint as White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia spent much of the day attempting to explain her past.…
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
During four decades of studying the effects of interaction with computers, Sherry Turkle has developed a reputation as a careful if critical social scientist who…
AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
Last week, the stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas was on Instagram when she got a DM from a fellow comic. Did she know, her friend wrote,…
AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
Last week, I attended a talk at MIT by Neil Thompson, who studies progress in computing and artificial intelligence. Over the course of just half…
My Friend Has No Soul
“Now feels like a great time to drop the small talk and argue about something deeply interesting,” Sage just suddenly spouted one day while sitting…