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As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

Long before the rise of the modern novel, fairy tales provided generations of listeners and readers with images of transformation, justice, adventure, and hope. They offered something more than ...

The Indie250 celebrations continue this Indie-Penance Day, as Kotaku celebrates the birth of our great indie nation some ...

Welcome to the 250th edition of Indie-Penance Day! Running annually on Kotaku since 1776, each year we celebrate the emancipation of indie games from the tyrannical publishers that once ruled the land ...

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IndieWire's streaming guide to the best Fourth of July horror movies, from 'Jaws' and 'Blow Out' to 'Maximum Overdrive' and ...

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