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8 New Books You Should Read This May
A grumpy bookshop employee’s musings, an investigation of parenthood in the digital age, and an essential history of OpenAI.
Hess’s debut memoir bursts with humor and intelligence as it weaves the story of her own pregnancy with researched sections about the dubious origins of period and pregnancy-tracking apps, the “natural” birth movement, and targeted advertising. Journalist and critic Bruce Handy energetically traces the evolution of the teen movie, from Rebel Without a Cause to Mean Girls, lingering in the high-school hallways of John Hughes and Amy Heckerling in the process. Before OpenAI founder Sam Altman set out to win the race to artificial general intelligence, he agreed with Elon Musk’s assessment that the arrival of the technology would spell out inevitable doom for humanity.
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