Direct detection searches for dark matter have advanced remarkably over the past decades, with experimental sensitivities improving by an order of magnitude every few years. This rapid progress has not only expanded the explored dark matter parameter space but also enabled measurements and observations of "standard" physics that were considered out of reach until recently.In this talk, I will present an overview of the XENONnT experiment, highlighting its latest results on dark matter and more, and will take a glance at the future of large-scale WIMP detectors. I will then discuss several new directions in the search for light dark matter and other emerging detector concepts that are now moving from ideas to experimental design.
