Warren Buffett''s Successor, Greg Abel, Has 34.7% of Berkshire Hathaway''s Portfolio Invested in These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks (news.google.com)
The Mark of the Machine - Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude. (www.newyorker.com)
“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political - Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Became a Subaru Socialist - By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. (www.newyorker.com)
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America - How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre - The customer-service representative from whom I’ve been waiting for a callback for fifty-three hours will call me back one minute before I turn my phone back on. (www.newyorker.com)
“The End of Oak Street” Is a Weirdly Alienated Jurassic Lark - In David Robert Mitchell’s film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, a family is endangered not only by dinosaurs but also by the director’s penchant for Spielbergian nostalgia. (www.newyorker.com)
New York’s Hottest Club Is . . . the Jacob Riis Bathhouse? - The Rockaway institution is now home to a flashy new members-only club, with a private pool and a co-working space. But how do the locals feel about it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Improbable Longevity of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” - The irreverent comedy is the longest-running sitcom in history, yet has won no major awards. What gives? (www.newyorker.com)
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands - Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of the European Summer - As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand. (www.newyorker.com)
Admissions Tour: Being a Person - In the real world, you can choose your meal plan: vegan, kosher, Sustainable, Totally Unsustainable, What Zendaya Eats in a Day, American Girl Doll food. Just swipe your card. (www.newyorker.com)
A Trump Grift Too Far? - A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit. (www.newyorker.com)
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire Towers - After seventy-eight years, New Jersey finally has a new lookout spot for blazes. With more frequent wildfires and record temperatures, it’s not a moment too soon. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Bell, Curator of High Art - The Gotham weed dispensary’s content director gets stoned at N.Y.C. landmarks for her video series, “Hi, I’m High.” On a trip to the Guggenheim, she critiques kooky sculptures and reflects on her trippy career path. (www.newyorker.com)
How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil? - Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country. (www.newyorker.com)
Anatomy of a Sex Scandal - What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way. (www.newyorker.com)