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Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.

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'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Companies’ Reporting on Race and Sex Could Come to an End

Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial

独家披露：一名女孩在中国基因编辑试验中死亡，此事从未对外公开

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

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Is There Actually an Error in the Supreme Court's Analysis in Loper Bright?

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High

A Decade After Michael Brown, Activists Still Rule Ferguson

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