The house, in Malibu, carefully guided inhabitants through indoor and outdoor spaces. It was sold to Ye—formerly Kanye West—in 2021, nine years after construction was complete. He admired Ando, and wanted an Ando, but didn’t “like the interior,” one of the architect’s former colleagues says.Video by Spencer Lowell for The New Yorker Tony Saxon is a wiry, tattooed man in his early thirties who is p

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“We are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official said of Musk’s role in the war in Ukraine. “That sucks.”Photo illustration by Matt Chase; Source photographs from Getty; Shutterstock Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in par

In the trenches in the Donbas, infantrymen face unrelenting horrors, from missiles to grenades to helicopter fire. A twenty-two-year-old Ukrainian sniper, code-named Student, stuffed candy wrappers into his ears before firing a rifle at the Russians’ tree line. He’d been discharged from the hospital two weeks earlier, after being shot in the thigh.Photographs by Maxim Dondyuk for The New Yorker So

As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray. For example, it’s bec

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