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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 09 > dario-amodei-slow-down-ai-save-humanity > 688610

Anthropic Says ‘We Owe It to Humanity’ to Slow Down AI

5+ hour ago   (30+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action. Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action....

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 09 > stop-calling-ai-companies-labs > 688528

Stop Calling AI Companies ‘Labs’

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (155+ words) Even so, Anthropic has a habit of landing on ambiguity about the fallout of its technology. In its education report, for instance, Anthropic, the entity best equipped to observe whether students are... The term lends an air of scientific rigor…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 08 > ai-jargon-in-everday-speech > 688358

Why Is Everyone in Silicon Valley Talking Like That?

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (40+ words) Silicon Valley has long had its own dialect. Venture capitalists are always talking about the value of being “high agency” and making “orthogonal bets.” But lately, tech vernacular has taken a... Did you mix something up? Maybe you’re just “hallucinating....

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theatlantic.com > health > 2026 > 08 > airplane-wifi-travel > 688260

Airplane Wi-Fi Is Great Now!

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (100+ words) The Atlantic Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the Amazon’s most remote villages have high-speed internet, but for years, the typical in-flight connectivity experience could have been…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 07 > ai-industry-keeps-breaking-internet > 688124

The AI Industry Keeps Breaking the Internet

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (264+ words) So this is Utopia? Read: Anthropic accidentally made the perfect commercial Those exposed chats were just the latest in a seemingly endless string of AI snafus: misinformation, data leaks, cybersecurity breaches. Immediately after the launch of ChatGPT, one could charitably…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 07 > apple-lease-upgrade-program > 688106

The New iPhone Underclass

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (7+ words) Apple’s rental program is a trap....

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 07 > openai-hugging-face-hack > 688025

The Scariest Part of OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (45+ words) The Atlantic The Atlantic Festival official agenda is out now! See the lineup and get your passes: Ruthless efficiency has its drawbacks. Read: Chatbots are becoming really, really good criminals Read: Assume you will be hacked...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 07 > silicon-valley-plan-ai-jobs-layoffs > 687863

A New Phase of the AI-Jobs Panic

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (90+ words) Silicon Valley Wants to Save You From AI Layoffs The Atlantic Silicon Valley is making a show of helping prepare the country for AI layoffs. But over the past several weeks, politicians and tech executives have started to make a…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 07 > apple-prices-macbook-memory-shortage > 687781

The $10,000 MacBook Pro Is Here

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (217+ words) Apple is charging you an AI tax. There are many things you can buy for $10,000: A nose job. With luck, a used car. A middling ticket to the World Cup final. Or you could purchase a MacBook Pro. That’s how…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 06 > hacker-houses-ai-boom-san-francisco > 687737

I Spent a Week in a Hacker House

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (306+ words) Staring down the AI abyss in a battered Victorian row house On a Friday in April, I hopped into an Uber to a fish market in San Francisco with a couple of tech founders on a mission to buy lobsters....