Daily Trojan

‘Mercy’ tries and fails to tackle the AI revolution

This movie also tries to be a cautionary tale. AI court system aside, the police officers ride ugly helicopter-drones, ...
The Economist

The War Room newsletter: Mission Maduro—when special ops succeed

Welcome to the first bonus War Room of 2026. January has been so packed with geopolitical ructions—did we just narrowly avoid the break-up of NATO ?—that one of the most dramatic special operations in ...

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers

Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup used AI to create an animated American Revolution series for Time Studios, but employed ...

Darren Aronofsky AI Studio Primordial Soup Debuts Animated Revolutionary War Series

Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio, has unveiled an animated short-form series about the American Revolution that ...

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and ...

Darren Aronofsky wages war on art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce

Darren Aronofsky, the director behind films like Mother!, Black Swan, and The Whale, has a new project: a dramatic AI ...
Curve

Getting to the Heart of Desert Hearts

In the 40th year since the release of Desert Hearts, Merryn Johns sits down with the film’s director and its stars to ...