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In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Dear Alison, Bilge, and Justin, For ...

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We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became ...

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is one of the 10 Best American AI Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. On October 17, BMO Capital reaffirmed its Outperform rating on Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) with ...

Zions ZION unexpectedly announced on Oct. 15 that it had identified apparent misrepresentations and contractual defaults by two of its borrowers. Zions will take a provision of $60 million and a ...

Source: ksuklein / iStock As I’ve shared before, when I was 12, I was playing at a friend’s house one hot August afternoon when I was told I was needed at home. As I turned into my long driveway, I ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

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