Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke
Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.
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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.
OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work
Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.
Jack Dorsey’s Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity
Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.
The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.
Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI
Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for…
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution
The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.
‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case
A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.
What to Expect When You’re Convicted
When a formerly incarcerated “troubleshooter for the mafia” looked for a second career he chose the thing he knew best. He became a prison consultant for white-collar criminals.
China’s Effort to Build a Competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start
China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but progress is hampered by launch bottlenecks and high failure…