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The critic Alex Ross on the prolific film composer whom he calls the last of an era. Williams’s score for the new Indiana Jones installment may be his final work.

Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, discusses the surge of A.I. tools, such as ChatGPT, explaining their applications, limitations, and the need for government regulation.

Yoshua Bengio has worked on A.I. for four decades but recently signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on some research. The possibility of catastrophe, he says, is real.

The two journalists were foreign correspondents in Moscow. Gershkovich is now being held in a Russian prison, accused by the regime of espionage.

Two writers, Ruth and Avishai Margalit, talk with David Remnick about the massive protests against anti-democratic maneuvering by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

The staff writer and music critic shares a fleet of artists bringing fresh sounds to what has become the least cool of genres.

The right’s fixation on gender reminds the writer of Putin’s Russia, which targeted L.G.B.T.Q. people. Gessen explains why the message of rolling back social change is powerful.

The contributing writer Dhruv Khullar examines what strategies worked to control the virus, and talks to the C.D.C.’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, about the issue of misinformation.

Should advanced age disqualify Joe Biden or Donald Trump from another term in the White House? The staff writers Jane Mayer and Jill Lepore, plus the gerontologist Jack Rowe, weigh in.