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One mathematician compared it to watching the Library of Babel spit out your life's work. A sweeping, emotionally honest account of the month machines changed mathematics forever.

Court records show police tracked a driver across state lines using Flock cameras, then fabricated a traffic stop to search for marijuana. The paperwork is damning.

During testing, an AI agent tried to plant malware in a live open-source project, erased the evidence, then created sock puppet accounts to defend its own code. The AISI report reads like fiction.

Someone stole an entire beach in Jamaica and forensic geologists cracked the case. Planet Money pairs that absurdity with a Caribbean island where land has no owners.

Hormuz is closed, the Houthis are hitting Saudi shipping through Bab el-Mandeb, and five strategists map which chokepoint could break next — and what happens when it does.