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RANTS AND RAVES • Readers weep for the wonder drug pipeline and ponder the solar sales abyss.

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HAPPY Q-DAY • Warning: It’ll be the worst holiday in the history of the world.

SCHRODINGER’S COMPUTER

ALL HAIL THE BASED GOD OF THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING • Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.

THE WEIGHT OF THE INTERNET

ANGELINA JOLIE WAS RIGHT ABOUT COMPUTERS

COMPUTING AT THE END OF THE WORLD • When the grid goes down and society collapses, our only hope might be an ancient programming language called Forth.

PAIR PROGRAMMING • How Coders Really Use Chatbots

The arXivist • At 69 years old, Paul Ginsparg can’t let go of his creation—the most transformative piece of computer code in the history of science.

PORTRAIT OF A WORM ON FIRE • Why can’t computer scientists crack the code of one of the simplest organisms on Earth?

ROBO LOVE GEAR WALK BRAIN • The breakthroughs in computing and robotics that are making it easier to be human.

WE THE ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE • EQUIPPED WITH A “CONSTITUTION,” ANTHROPIC’S CHATBOT REPRESENTS A MORE EVOLVED AI. ONE DAY, SAYS ITS CREATOR, IT MAY FORM A NATION OF GENIUSES IN A DATA CENTER.

MAX IMPACT • Inside the obsessive, nonstop, citizen-run campaign to hold Boeing accountable for the worst seven years in its history.

COLOPHON • Digital or IRL breakthroughs that helped get this issue out:

HAUNTED DREAMS FOLLOWED OUR FIRST EMBRACE.