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Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?
Luckily for managers, building human capital takes a long time. Or, at least, it used to: artificial intelligence is, among other things, a technology that speeds up learning and...
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory
Every night during the shoot, Bi and his assistant directors convened in a conference room, where they and assorted crew members discussed everything from research on opium production to...
2025 Was David Lynch
In the summer, the actress Natasha Lyonne relayed an anecdote about the late director David Lynch, in which he told her that A.I. in the creative arts would soon...
“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details
They’re a pretty wretched lot. There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife left him, and Lee Ross (Andrew Scott),...
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios, many still under their longtime executives, struggled to keep pace, and...
Why Video Podcasts Multiplied Beyond the Man Cave
This past August, clips of the millennial comedian and podcaster Adam Friedland speaking about the war in Gaza collected millions of views online, becoming some of the year’s most...
A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away. Pei Lulu...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Treasures That Are Old, or Old at Heart
When you make a purchase using a link on this page, we may receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The New Yorker.In general, I am a fan of the...
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Shows that Black Art Matters
I had to wait for the next generation—my older sister—to break through that uncertainty and introduce me to the political, social, and aesthetic significance of Harlem. In my sister’s...
