A group of “unauthorized users” have accessed Anthropic’s Mythos AI model , which the company recently said they couldn’t widely release because it was too dangerous. Whoopsie doodle! Maybe don’t use guessable paths for your powerful cyberattack model?
"The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of 'Brave New World.'"
This year’s fest will feature over 80 publishers with a full weekend of workshops, panels, and book signings. May 8–10 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Filmmaker Noah Hawley was invited to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat in 2018. Reflecting on the experience recently for The Atlantic, Hawley writes that today’s super-rich have stopped “pretending that the rules of human society apply” to them . The Jeff Bezos of
Wow, this interview! “I’ve never had an interview quite like this one with Charlize Theron.”
“In a new book called “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” [Israeli professor of Holocaust & genocide studies] Omer Bartov argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th.”
In contrast with the institution’s behemoth architecture, its recently unveiled East London branches seem built on a human scale.
Lessons from a 1969 documentary on Nazi-occupied France on how fascism takes root . “A former undercover British agent recalls that working-class French were eager to help him and to shelter him. Those who were wealthier preferred to stay out of it.”
"Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more."
A new short story from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, etc.) called Constellations about a mission that has crash-landed on a distant planet.
We thought this day would never come. But we kept the faith and now we can begin to reap the rewards: there is actually a trailer for the Coyote vs. ACME movie and the movie itself is actually coming out on Aug 28. Quick recap of the situation so far: Ian Frazier wrote a story
Well, here it is at last: the new Boards of Canada album is called Inferno and it will be released on May 28. Pre-order or pre-save the album .
Jamelle Bouie on the truly unprecedented open corruption of the Trump regime . I’ve found it useful to think of DJT’s 2nd term primarily as a heist: a theft of money & power from the American people by a con man who finally found the perfect score.
Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
An artist on saying no to the US Biennale pavilion, Dumbo Open Studios turns 10, and the Rijksmuseum takes on Ovid's magnum opus.
The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
Technology changes things. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. When a powerful new technology arrives, it offers us wishes. Too often, we waste them, asking it to take on simple chores or offer us trivial conveniences. We’re in the biggest moment of technical change of our
Though you may not hear it every day, chimera remains an evocative word, perhaps even more so for its rarity. It descends from the Greek Khimaira, literally “year-old she-goat,” the name of a mythical fire-breathing creature with a caprine body, sure enough, but also the head
A curious thing happened at the end of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th. As European and American industries became increasingly confident in their methods of invention and production, scientists made discovery after discovery that shook their understanding of the
Is the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years : a) The Silence of the Lambs, b) The Princess Bride, c) The Return of the King (LoTR), d) Apocalypse Now, or e) Jurassic Park?
Plus, the works we’re on the fence about in the massive MoMA PS1 survey.
"It's a new era of D.I.Y. medicine. Now the health establishment needs to catch up."
A French corporation was recently found criminally liable for enabling terrorism . “The court in Paris has just ruled that cynicism and an exclusive focus on profits can constitute a crime.”
The new work at the ArtPhilly festival will honor Judge, who fled enslavement by the Washington family, and Rem'mie Fells, a Black transgender woman murdered in 2020.
"Some people say, ‘Why do you weave?’ But they don’t understand this work." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article How One Cooperative Champions the
The sculptor told the Financial Times that “this was not the moment” to represent the nation at the Venice Biennale.
Works on paper were a highlight in the event’s 10th year — not to mention the impromptu conversations and artistic community.
MoMA PS1 opens its once-every-half-decade “Greater New York” survey. Plus, we interview the great Joan Semmel and NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji.
This is an animal called the leaf sheep: It’s a species of slug that is partially solar-powered, like a plant. Leaf sheep are kleptoplastic organisms that steal chloroplasts from algae, store them in their bodies, and then can rely on photosynthesis for their energy needs: