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Arts
‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: P.I. Meets A.I.
The story of death at a mogul’s retreat (no, not “Glass Onion”) has a few interesting ideas about tech within a familiar mystery scenario.
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Business
Is Crypto Financing Terrorism?
A report that terror groups raised more than $130 million in crypto during recent years has set off a debate in Washington and finance circles.
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Arts
When the Thrill of Victory Felt Truly Thrilling
Michael MacCambridge’s “The Big Time” rewinds to the ’70s, when showy personalities and compelling rivalries turned sports into mass entertainment.
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Arts
Pushing the Body to Extremes to Find Serenity
Why do some people put their bodies through extreme acts? Why cross the Seine on a wire or climb a mountain during a thunderstorm? The reasons are probably the opposite of what you imagine: Peace. Calm. Serenity. In his evening-length “Corps Extrêmes ...
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Arts
After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow
The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”
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Business
Maybe We Will Finally Learn More About How A.I. Works
Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate.
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World
What if We Could All Control A.I.?
Researchers at Anthropic asked roughly 1,000 Americans to write rules for their A.I. chatbot. The results could be a model for future kinds of A.I. governance.
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World
The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana
When Hamas attacked Israel, Republicans knew whom to blame: President Biden. Donald Trump asserted that the attack wouldn’t have happened if he were still in the White House; Mike Pence, while condemning Trump for praising Hezbollah and Hamas ...
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Politics
Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurologist at Stanford University and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Dr. Sapolsky worked for decades as a field primatologist before turning to ...
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World
You Can Look Inside a Black Hole. I’ll Show You How.
How do we learn something new, something we do not yet know? One way, of course, is through experience. This is why the young depart and travel. Another is thanks to someone else, who might have traveled for us. What they have learned comes to us as ...