Modern computing, AI, and advanced chips depend on one machine built by a single Dutch company. Inside ASML's EUV lithography and the physics that make it possible.

Advances like OpenAI’s Sora 2 can now generate videos so realistic that sight itself can no longer serve as proof. As falsification becomes effortless, society is shifting its trust from images to systems of provenance — records, signatures, and verification chains — that promise authenticity but also centralize power. The struggle ahead will not be between truth and lies, but between those who define what counts as genuine.