They Started I.V.F., Then Split. Now Who Gets Custody of the Embryos?
More than anything else in the world, Erin Millender longed to be a mother. She already had a day care...
AOC tells New Yorkers to ‘pull up’ to Alabama during fiery rally speech
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week,...
Some Like It Literary: How Marilyn Monroe Gave a Smart Gloss to Her Image
The best-seller list bows to Reese Witherspoon. Sarah Jessica Parker judged the Booker Prize. And Kate Hudson reared up recently...
Australian Guy Opened a Bag of Lettuce and Found Something Alive Hiding Inside
While I would be personally mortified to find a frog in the bag of lettuce I picked up from the...
We quit our jobs to buy a sailboat and enjoy a ‘first retirement’ — it’s been worth the risk
Charles Boddie and Bianca Chan had careers on the upswing, but they quit their jobs and bought a sailboat to...
To A.I. Executives, We’re All Just ‘Meat Computers’
The relationship between mind and machine has long fascinated philosophers and scientists, who have likened the human brain to clocks,...
Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I.
On a recent Tuesday in an Edwardian government building along Parliament Square in London, four artificial intelligence experts were busy...
He’s the Modern Master of Raunchy Animation
“I’ve always found copulatory ties funny,” Nick Kroll told me over lunch at Leon’s in Manhattan one April afternoon. For...
AI hallucinations are infiltrating expert work—and entering the permanent body of knowledge
It was a process that had become routine for Maxim Topaz. The associate professor at Columbia University’s School of Nursing...
Forget a cup of sugar. These neighbors asked to borrow the backyard.
Marisa Mender-Franklin had always considered herself a gardener, but when the 37-year-old elementary school teacher grew the flowers for her...
