In 2022, Brookins began building an A.I. companion modelled on Geralt of Rivia, a character from a series of fantasy novels ...

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Taking out Mencho was a win for the Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum, helping to mollify the U.S. President, Donald Trump ...

From the daily newsletter: people are turning to digital companions as antidotes to loneliness—confiding in them, finding sexual gratification, and even “marrying” them.

Tehran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei to lead Iran “sends a strong message to Trump that his bombings and threats are not delivering the regime change he seemingly wants,” an expert told Robin ...

As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the White House is dismantling the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.

Published in the print edition of the March 16, 2026, issue, with the headline “A Day in the Pre-Internet World*.” If you’re on your phone: Clara and Desmond are spies, and they are meeting at a ...

After speaking out about the Atlanta Hawks’ promotion of a strip club, the backup center for the San Antonio Spurs drew ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.” ...

In the course of the story, the woman relives several terminated pregnancies from her past, which means also reliving the ...

Friedmann went inside on November 30, 1987. He was barely out of boyhood, myopic, five feet seven, and pencil-thin. Friedmann ...