Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power. By A.O. Scott In his new book, the writer goes deep on a sport that dominates ...

“What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently,” Karpathy posted on X. “People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are ...

The author Kurt Vonnegut's estate has sued to challenge a Utah law that allows school districts to ban books from their libraries. Supporters of the law say it keeps pornography out of schools.

February 3, 2026 • Journalist Gabriel Sherman has covered the Murdoch family for nearly two decades. In his new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, he chronicles the protracted public battle for control ...

An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

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