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A Young Man Used AI to Build A Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep

Goodbye, digital natives. Hello, AI natives. A teenager, a chatbot and a working fusion device in a garage — the most-read story we have ever published, and the clearest signal yet of what the next generation does with these tools.

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