For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley
You seem to do that in your movies too—tie things up with a bow, give the audience a satisfying ending. Should we expect the same from Wicked? I’ve thought a …
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Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’
Sometimes donors expect that they can save a life for much less than $5,000, and they’re surprised to encounter our estimate. But most come to share my belief that $5,000 …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Powering the AI Revolution
How big is your concern that these constraints will spur China to spin up competitive AI chips? China has things that are competitive. Right. This isn’t data-center scale, but the …
Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them
In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and …
How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better algorithms, they’ll create superintelligence, right? Yeah, there’s no question that …
‘Rebel Moon’ Director Zack Snyder on Violence, Loss, and Extreme Fandom
more taxidermied animals live in Zack Snyder’s office than seems normal. A lioness. A beaver. A duck. Also a wide collection of axes, swords, and guns—the weapons used to fell …
Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence
It’s not a great situation. The fact is I don’t think there are probably any platforms that have the tools they would need in place to address the problem through …
‘Stranger Things 5,’ ‘Deadpool 3,’ a New ‘Star Wars’ (10?!), and Taylor Swift Have One Man in Common
I interviewed Ryan for Free Guy a few years ago, and he mentioned that you two would always be working on the script on the train to and from set, …
Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier
I don’t know how many, and I don’t know who they are until a text stimulates them. There’s one text that keeps getting tossed in my direction, which is King …
Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome
OK, you’ve lost me. What do you mean by “bring in a molecule”? It literally just means allowing a molecule into a cell. And if that molecule is a gene …