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This brief survey brings the reader up to date with recent results on maximal subgroups of exceptional groups of Lie type, both algebraic and finite. In the case of algebraic groups, there is a complete answer, in the sense that maximal closed subgroups of positive dimension in the algebraic group \(G\) are determined up to conjugacy in \(\Aut(G)\). In the case of finite groups, the question is much more difficult, and the answer is not known in the same degree of completeness: the main problems are the embedding problems for simple subgroups, both cross-characteristic (including alternating and sporadic) and defining-characteristic. References are provided to many hundreds of journal pages, written mainly by these authors and their collaborators, where more details can be found. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1012.00033].