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Jensen Huang is CEO of the most valuable company in human history, NVIDIA. He is arguably the one person who could slow down the AI race. But he’s made a massive bet that AI is safe.
Is that conviction, insulation, salesmanship, or something else?
We find answers in his very unusual life story.
The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt
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An interview with a writer, Meghan O’Gieblyn, who started lying to herself about her relationship to alcohol and God. And afterwards wondered: when did it start? Why did it happen? How do you make peace with the part of yourself that wants something that could destroy you?
Meghan O’Gieblyn, Will and Attention
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Nine months ago, three podcasters attempted to build a better internet. Today -- they confront foreign adversaries on a digital battlefield.
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Search Engine has some exciting news about the moving image to announce, and we’re sharing an interview we loved with an unusual architect.
Check out the video version on Freakonomics' YouTube page.

An email hits our inbox with the subject line: “My Dad is making a Bollywood Movie… is he being scammed?” We investigate.
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