The first 20 minutes of “Dune: Prophecy” certainly leaned into the dense lore and history of the universe. The series begins by recounting the humans’ long and bloody war against the “thinking ...

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." One of the obvious questions when it comes ...

“Day by day ... the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them.” Does this sentiment sound familiar—especially when it comes to the current intense ...

Last September, Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” The rumor in Silicon Valley was ...

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