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fromThe New Yorker
3 days agoBriefly Noted Book Reviews
Two contemporary novels explore intimate relationships, memory and presence, grief, and academic life through close interior perspectives and tense, character-driven scenes.
Such political entities, governed by a singular unelected leader, drag millions of people along for the ride, often to the benefit of only a small ruling class (and the exploitation of the masses). In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao makes a bold but simple claim: the AI companies intricately woven into our digital lives are de facto empires, and it takes keen senses to sort their powerful leaders' self-aggrandizing promises from the realistic implications of the technology.