Dancing in the Dark

Good Morning,Aeon argues Silicon Valley has a science-fiction problem — an industry building the future from novels it read as blueprints when they were written as warnings. The writers, meanwhile, want their words back: US publishers and authors sued Google over the copying that trained its AI (Publishers Weekly). The Walrus profiles the Canadians who’d like to stop the machines altogether.The Trump administration is keeping Smithsonian board seats vacant, reshaping the institution