The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Breaking Free From Alex Jones A former Infowars employee on radicalization, lies, and getting out

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

AIbirds NewBird AI, an Avis Budget squeeze, sports factor models and recursive online courses.

this is gold (and a fascinating technical explanation of the debt financing here)

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

What happens when agents can do schoolwork? My latest for
@theatlantic.com on the next phase of AI in the classroom:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Claude Mythos Preview is, of course, a big deal for cybersecurity. But perhaps more importantly, the model brings into stark relief how AI companies are amassing more power and influence than nation-states.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Meta Swears This Time Is Different The tech giant has floundered on AI. Now it’s going all in on a “superintelligence” team.

I suppose we’re finally about to find out

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI The case that AI is already stealing young people’s jobs is based on a statistical mirage.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’ Prediction markets are trying to woo women through matcha memes and #girlboss ads.

I needed the world to know that Polymarket has an X account for its female traders called @PolyBaddies. My latest for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

You Can’t Escape the AI Tax Electronics are getting more expensive and worse. Blame the AI boom.

Here comes RAMageddon!! Very good analysis here from @hana-kiros.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A Game Plan for the AI Boom Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots.

On AlphaGo, reasoning models, automation, life:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I have felt a little nuts listening to experts and then seeing how, broadly, the world hasn't caught up to the severity of all this. but it really seems like when the gap begins to close, it is gonna close fast. something @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to get at here:

sharp and essential reading

we've made over 20 of these pods as of this week...it has been a fun/humbling/chaotic learning experience trying a different medium. anyhow! if you have been enjoying this at all or have thoughts about it, my dms are open! but also...maybe drop us a like/subscribe/idk one of those things. it helps!

Empire of AI wins the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction

Omg???????

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis “There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis “There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”

The AI boom's finances had already become a whole lot more precarious over the past six months. Enter a war with Iran that threatens several of the key industrial inputs to the shockingly fragile data-center supply chain. With the brilliant @cwarzel.bsky.social:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Weather Prediction Prediction Also a fake Warner bidder, bank re-tranching, spy satellites, Birkin grommets and 420.

"... In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it ..."

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

The Worst Airport in America Traveling by plane anywhere is bad right now, but in some places, it’s worse.

correct

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

That’s right and it’s the best. (But cube your potatoes don’t cut them in rounds, that’s weird and small chunks are the ideal textural and fork experience!!)

OpenAI’s Identity Crisis The company’s sudden decision to pull the plug on Sora is a sign of deeper trouble.

I wrote about OpenAI’s ongoing identity crisis:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Does A.I. Need a Constitution? A new set of precepts is meant to make the chatbot Claude wise, decent, and safe. It also marks a striking transfer of public responsibility from constitutional government to private tech firms.

"It’s because the U.S. Constitution has failed that Claude has a constitution"

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Claude Takes On Monet Why is Anthropic sponsoring an exhibition about Monet?

Lovely little piece by @matteowong.bsky.social about Anthropic's sponsorship of a Claude Monet exhibit, and the greater meaning of "interaction" that the company (and its technology) misses

Claude Takes On Monet Why is Anthropic sponsoring an exhibition about Monet?

"I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard," the owl-eyed man says of Gatsby's library.

Anyway, Anthropic made a Claude AI typewriter to go alongside an exhibition about Claude Monet. I tried it.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Our story on Meta's legal woes
by @kait.bsky.social

I am formally petitioning to unleash Charlie on this

Trump’s Reckless Gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the White House is dismantling the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“We won’t know the harm fully until it’s too late.”

The Myspace Dilemma Facing ChatGPT Inventing a market is less important than perfecting one.

AI services are kind of weird. They're not like web browsers, operating systems, social networks, or even smartphones. They are becoming more like commodities—facial tissues, catered slop-bowl trays, or electricity. I wrote something about this:

The Human Skill That Eludes AI Why can’t language models write well?

"Sam Altman has predicted that large language models will soon be capable of 'fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics" — but, "might be able to extrude only something equivalent to 'a real poet’s okay poem'" @jasmine.bsky.social on what sets writing apart