GPT-4 is impressive, but a layperson can’t wield it the way a programmer can. I still feel secure in my profession. In fact, I feel somewhat more secure than before. As software gets easier to make, it’ll proliferate; programmers will be tasked with its design, its configuration, … | Continue reading
Ronan Farrow reports on the U.S. government's unpredictable and dangerous reliance on Musk and his companies # | Continue reading
though affirmative action for white college applicants still exists, in the form of legacy admits, children of donors, and other VIPs # | Continue reading
musicians are increasingly being sued over vibe infringement # | Continue reading
New Yorker journalist famous for skewering morally compromised people skewers Ted Koppel for befriending a war criminal | Continue reading
Bosses have certain goals, but don’t want to be blamed for doing what’s necessary to achieve those goals; by hiring consultants, management can say that they were just following independent, expert advice. Even in its current rudimentary form, A.I. has become a way for a company … | Continue reading
Skip to main content The ninety-fifth Academy Awards are being handed out this evening in Los Angeles, and The New Yorker is covering all the action. Here on our live blog, we're posting regular updates as the red carpet is strolled, prizes are announced, and winners thank (in no … | Continue reading
Dozens of media outlets have fled to the capital of Latvia, only to encounter a distrustful public and a set of strictly enforced laws and regulations. On December 1st, TV Rain, an independent Russian television station that had been banned from Russian cable and satellite channe … | Continue reading
A very astute framing by Ted Chiang—large language models as a form of lossy compression for text. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression. A lot of uses have been proposed for large language models. Thinking about … | Continue reading
Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press? | Continue reading
Among the revelations in the recently released materials from the January 6th committee was an account of a conversation that took place in May, 2022, between the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and the former White House ethics attorney Stefan Passantino. Hutchinson h … | Continue reading
The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward. | Continue reading
How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government. | Continue reading
He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh? | Continue reading
Metabolism, which unleashes the energy in what you eat, may be nature’s most electrifying invention. | Continue reading
Guo Wengui has been trailed by scandals involving corruption and espionage. What is he really after? | Continue reading
All roads lead to “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” | Continue reading
Mercedes drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, dominated the world’s fastest motorsport for a decade. Now they can’t win a race. | Continue reading
Joseph Mitchell reports on the millions of rats in New York, and how they got here, from 1944. “Rats,” he wrote, “are almost as fecund as germs.” | Continue reading
Abdulrazak Gurnah vividly captures colonial and post-colonial histories of abuse and dispossession, but also startling acts of reclamation and renewal. | Continue reading
More than anything, Diana had wanted to be a mother. Now my three-year-old daughter and I had to find a way to live without her. | Continue reading
Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Biden Administration has provided valuable intelligence and increasingly powerful weaponry—a risky choice that has paid off in the battle against Putin. | Continue reading
The success of Yu Ming Charter School shows how our usual ways of thinking about diversity and equity in American schools are becoming outmoded. | Continue reading
The games are a bonanza for the companies that states hire to administer them. But what about the rest of us? | Continue reading
A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright’s own ghosts. | Continue reading
Her work stands on its own, yet her win also marks the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time. | Continue reading
Upon receiving a diagnosis of brain cancer, Eric Sun set out to achieve some lifelong musical goals. | Continue reading
The industry used to honor India’s secular ideals—but, since the rise of Narendra Modi, it’s been flooded with stock Hindu heroes and Muslim villains. | Continue reading
In renovating Geffen Hall, the acoustics came first. | Continue reading
A new book—the first-ever collection of Lee’s work—and a solo exhibition in New York make the case that he is one of the great overlooked luminaries of American picture-making. | Continue reading
The DART mission, in which a spacecraft knocked an asteroid off course, is a rehearsal for saving the world. | Continue reading
How E. Nesbit used her grief, her politics, and her imagination to make a new kind of book for kids. | Continue reading
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness. | Continue reading
The musicians in the latest micro-generation are more TikTok-savvy and self-promotional than their predecessors, but also more winking about this approach. | Continue reading
A new history of YouTube argues that the video-streaming service created the template for the online attention economy. | Continue reading
What happened between the Neanderthals and us? | Continue reading
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. | Continue reading
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running? | Continue reading
In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine. | Continue reading
How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons. | Continue reading
“Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist’s new graphic memoir, chronicles two years she spent working in the Athabasca oil sands, in northeastern Alberta. | Continue reading
An antique dealer in Minnesota believed that he had found rare photographic evidence documenting the Nanjing Massacre. | Continue reading
Express yourself! That credo was forged by a group of brilliant, oversexed German visionaries in the late eighteenth century. But did they really think it through? | Continue reading
Like many children, I didn’t really understand what my parents were like. But I collected clues. | Continue reading
He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended. | Continue reading