A Test Case for AI Creep in Hollywood

Years ago, when the Simpsons animator Chuck Sheetz was a lecturer at UCLA, he invited a producer colleague of his from the series to attend a screening of his students’…

Nigel Farage Wants a Mandate For Corruption

Nigel Farage is a great survivor. A decade ago, the British populist provocateur achieved his lifelong ambition—getting his country to vote itself out of the European Union. Since then, he…

China’s Answer to AI Sticker Shock

In recent weeks, Silicon Valley has been fawning over an AI model released by a lab in China. The program, called GLM-5.2, has been called a “marvel,” “very good,” and…

Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun

Source: YouTube Summary The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case…

Taylor Swift’s Networking Spectacular

Source: YouTube Summary At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden. The sign meant that the “T&T” in…

China Is Abusing AI

China’s release of yet another impressive open-source AI model has lately raised urgent questions in Silicon Valley about which country will dominate the AI market. What has received less attention…

The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal Diagnosis

When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long fingers. Perhaps one day he will be a famous pianist,…

I Heard You Singing

I. Will and his brother, Butch, lived under the same roof for 23 years without it ever dawning on either of them that living together was what they did. This…

Your Vivid, Vibrant Everyday Life

Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid again. You’ll receive one edition every Saturday for the next eight weeks. What if your life could…

What Biden Changed About American Foreign Policy

The debate over the future of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy has become intensely personal. In May, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii posted on social media that although he did…