There's been lots of drama over at OpenAI as of late. First, CEO Sam Altman was fired! Then he was … maybe going to be unfired? Then he was hired by Microsoft! To be clear, Nitish Pahwa writes, this saga, with all its twists and turns, was a little stupid--but not as stupid as it looks. He breaks down exactly what's happened and explains why it's best to consider it the first skirmish in a war over A.I. Did you know that more than 30 states in the U.S. have laws that penalize individuals or businesses that boycott Israel over the treatment of Palestinians?

Dianne Feinstein's office announced Friday morning that she has died at the age of 90, after more than 30 years representing California in the Senate. As her colleagues share memories of her, some huge, high-stakes questions are looming--namely, who will take her seat, and what will become of her spot on the powerful Judiciary Committee. Jim Newell walks us through what seems likely to happen, and what still remains unknown. Plus: The Waves reflects on the senator's legacy of fighting gun violence and conflict with her left-wing constituents. Unless Congress passes a bill to fund the government by Oct. 1, we're cruising for a government shutdown.

Joe Biden showed up on the United Auto Workers' picket line today--but even with the president's historic gesture of union support, a specter is looming. The shift to electric vehicles is coming, and "this future is not guaranteed to offer the same kinds of middle-class jobs and robust benefits that unionized autoworkers enjoy in many states," Nitish Pahwa writes. He takes a close look at what the EV transition is going to mean for organized labor. Fred Kaplan noticed three of his own books among the list of titles that Meta used to train its new large language model, LLaMA (basically its answer to ChatGPT). So he decided to ask it some questions--what did it think of his books?

How much does Sound of Freedom get right about child sex trafficking? On the whole, it's pretty misleading about the nature and root causes of the problem, Molly Olmstead writes. In addition to what the movie gets wrong, she explains the religious tradition it taps into and the controversies that surround the man at the film's center. Plus: What Next examines how Sound of Freedom wove QAnon conspiracy theories into box office gold. Sam Adams reviews the whole moviegoing experience.

In a March 21 Slatest, Mark Joseph Stern misstated that the April 2019 Wisconsin Supreme Court election could give Democratic justices a majority. That opportunity will not arise until the 2020 election. Due to an editing error, a March 20 Future Tense Newsletter incorrectly stated that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been using nonconsensually obtained images to train its Facial Recognition Verification Testing program. The NIST does not develop or train facial recognition systems. It provides independent government evaluations of prototype face recognition technologies.

In an Aug. 25 Interrogation, Isaac Chotiner misquoted J.D. Vance as referring to a "recognized sociology." He said a "weaponized sociology." In an Aug. 24 Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait misstated that the planet Proxima b orbits its star at 1–2 meters per second. In an Aug. 24 Brow Beat, Sam Adams misstated that 2001: A Space Odyssey didn't place in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the best films of all time. The movie placed at No. 6.