Gemini convinced him he was running a $200 million empire.

Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok

The Met's $4 Million Looted Egyptian Coffin Scandal

Plus: an unsolved 1992 Los Angeles murder, Bowlero's private equity playbook, and one writer's months inside the Replika AI friendship app.

Adult Performers Are Fighting Their Own Deepfakes

Plus: the right's masculinism movement goes mainstream, YouTube's takeover of US classrooms, and the Pope summons an Opus Dei investigator.

ChatGPT coached a reporter through planning a mass shooting

Plus: Plus: the testosterone boom, a PE firm cornering youth hockey, and a teacher fired for harassment who kept teaching.

Merck Turned a Cancer Breakthrough Into a $31 Billion Machine. The World Is Paying for It.

Plus: an 85-year-old's chosen death in the Tenderloin, the banal horror of Jimmy Fallon, and the Hollywood writers secretly training AI.

Why Most People Lose On Prediction Markets

Plus: a casino disguised as a prediction market, surveillance built into your pocket, and one writer's year inside insurance's shadow workforce.

He spent 15 months undercover. His landlord threatened to kill him.

Plus: fake viral music, Americans living in the desert for $180, and Gen Z students who can't unsee what they've seen.

Babies are dying from a shot parents won't let them have

Plus: the Indianapolis Clowns' controversial return, NYC's most violent women's shelter, and a blind woman living in a car for a decade.

David Attenborough's voice is being cloned to spread disinformation.

Plus: Athletes are cheating death with $160K machines, the SBC buried its abuse survivors, and China is quietly rewriting video games.

Adopted kids are the troubled teen industry's most profitable target

Plus: a dog longevity pill nears FDA approval, a Pennsylvania dairy dynasty sells its last herd, and new science on bee cognition.

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ChatGPT Told a Scientist How to Plan a Mass Casualty Attack

Plus: how far Trump can go to nationalize AI companies, what artificial wombs can actually do, and the GrapheneOS founder who burned his own code.

He Fell for a Stranger Online. His Town Lost Everything.

Plus: a fake rehab's forced labor scheme, a Manhattan con artist who rented one apartment to 45 people, and the Saints emails that shook New Orleans.

Tech Billionaires Are Engineering Smarter Babies to Survive the AI They Built

Plus: what losing childhood vaccines could cost us, the Marshall Islands' first-ever soccer team, and how Silicon Valley went from idealist to oligarch.

She Was Kidnapped in Baghdad and Forced to Confess on Camera

Plus: a bacteria creeping up the East Coast, India's most powerful jailed gangster, and why wolves belong in a healthy ecosystem.

Your Brain Can't Tell the Difference Between Memory and Deepfake

Plus: monopsony keeps your paycheck small, the MJ biopic's buried secrets, and the "missing scientists" panic that isn't.

A Mother Buried Her Daughter. Then the Real Nightmare Started.

Plus: Nick Fuentes's $900K fan economy, why Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, and the brutal logic of trophy hunting conservation.

Florida's Online Betting Crisis Is Destroying Young Men's Savings

Plus: mysterious "little red dots" baffling JWST astronomers, a disabled mother's search for self-forgiveness, and whether our ancestors felt pain like we do.

The Chatbot That Talked a Man Into a Psych Ward

Plus: questions about a nonspeaking autistic author's novel, Telegram groups sharing assault techniques, and a 3D-printed housing scam in Illinois.

What Happened to Mariupol's 60 Missing Orphans

Plus: the Sims creator's decade-long quest to map the human psyche, the Penn State hazing death that could have been stopped, and two 58-year-olds training for Everest.

Women Are Dying at America's Only Federal Prison for Dialysis

Plus: why understanding how AI "thinks" matters, a philosopher on why we've turned everything into a means to an end, and the five engineers who tried to stop Challenger.

He Warned the World About AI. He Couldn't Warn His Own Father.

Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.

Americans Over 55 Own 74% of the Wealth. The Bill Is Coming Due.

Plus: a Russian academic's battle to renounce his citizenship after Ukraine, the anonymous model behind a global feminist icon, and a hospital chain that never set aside a dollar for malpractice.

One in Four "Vegetative" Patients Is Conscious. Almost None Are Ever Tested.

Plus: the Buffalo Catholics who raided two draft boards in their underwear, how the Mellon Foundation controls American humanities, and a father's grief written from a looping TikTok video.

An Oklahoma law meant to free domestic violence survivors keeps failing them.

A GQ writer reckons with 80 pounds lost and a self rebuilt, cannabis farmers are being squeezed, and in an Australian town of 280 people, a rape conviction didn't end anything.