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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black backdrop, is white, except for...
European AI allies unveils LLM alternative to Big Tech, DeepSeek
As China’s DeepSeek threatens to dismantle Silicon Valley’s AI monopoly, a European alliance has emerged with an alternative to tech’s global order. They call their project OpenEuroLLM. Like DeepSeek,...
Provence in the West Village, at Zimmi’s
There’s traditional luxury to be had, if you’re looking for that sort of thing—a truffle-laden pasta special one night, toast soldiers piped with foie-gras mousse and topped with a...
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
At her house, Kohner-Zuckerman showed me souvenirs of her parents’ world, which were nestled amid memorabilia of her beach days. One was a bound copy of her father’s University...
The Brief and Brilliant Career of Sara Gómez
Such new forms of behavior and new ways of thinking are exactly what Gómez brings to light in her feature, “One Way or Another.” The opening credits trumpet its...
AI battery brain promises to jumpstart European EVs
A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. The company then predicts a power source’s lifetime...
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives
The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy — those who understand how...
“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming
The first episode of Netflix’s larkish dramedy “Mo” reveals exactly what its title character, Mohammed Najjar, is capable of. He’s camped out in a parking lot, peddling “authentic bootlegs”—faux...
A Song on Porcelain
In many responses to the first days of the second Trump Presidency—expressions of an outrage denied the refuge of surprise—a historical analogy recurs: Is this how it felt to...
We’re getting closer to having practical quantum computers – here’s what they will be used for
In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman...
