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Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.

Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal

Parasocial Studies

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Brendan I. Koerner

The Big Interview

Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

Steven Levy

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Flux Capacitor

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Kathy Gilsinan

Book Excerpt

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Rachel Lance

Tip of the Iceberg

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

David Kushner

Backchannel

He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared

Jenna Scatena

Big Interview

‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

Virginia Heffernan

Immoral calculus

The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Leif Wenar

A Tale of Two Cities

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

Peter Guest

Attention!

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

Steven Levy

Snoo You Lose

Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?

Robert Peck and Paresh Dave

Big Interview

Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in Dune: Part Two—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL

Hemal Jhaveri

Change Your Settings

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Byron Tau

Big Interview

Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

Lauren Goode

War and Peace

Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death

Vadim Smyslov

Big Interview

Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

Steven Levy

Ship It

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Virginia Heffernan

Reset Button

The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

Jaron Lanier and Allison Stanger

Book Excerpt

2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Book Excerpt

2054, Part III: The Singularity

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis