“The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t.”
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I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone
“I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy.”
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Whither the Nerd-Bully?
“Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.”
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
“Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.”
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The Clippening
“‘Clippers’ cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?”
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Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.)
“The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of ‘Brave New World.'”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara
The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
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Death of an Indian Tech Worker
“A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.”
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What US Tech Did to Ireland
“The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.”
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Syria’s Quest to Build Its Own Silicon Valley
“Tech founders in Damascus are rebooting a war-torn country.”