OpenAI’s recently launched Atlas browser is a fascinating inversion of what users may expect from a browser, centering AI answers above traditional web links. Every click in a regular browser is a chance to see a new part of the web. Every click in Atlas is a chance to use ChatGPT. Just typed a…

The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the…

Sportswriters have been penning baseball’s obituary for decades, claiming that America’s pastime is past its time. The game is too slow, too stodgy, too old, too boring, they said. The kids don’t care. But baseball is not dying. It’s thriving. A thrilling World Series, set to resume tonight with…

The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems. “A brutal storm off the coastal cliff. The clouds are formed into tubular formations and lightning strikes are never ending.” I scroll; another appears: “A male figure formed of gentle fire, his outline glowing with soft embers, approaches a female figure…

Yamamoto! (Daniel Shirley/MLB Photos via Getty) COOPERSTOWN, New York — It is 33 degrees in Cooperstown on this quiet Sunday morning, and a ghostly fog hovers over Otsego Lake, and I’m sitting on the Otesaga Hotel veranda where pretty much every single baseball Hall of Famer once sat. Sandy Koufax…

Photo by Daiji Umemoto on Unsplash As a baseball fan, there can be so much joy in seeing one’s team reach the pinnacle of the sport. In this century alone Red Sox fans can rejoice at climbing that mountain in 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018. The hard-working staff here at Drezner’s World can also rejoice…

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national pastime is easily dismissed as past its prime. It isn’t. The 2025 postseason, which ended when the Los…

The story unfolds so rapidly that it can all seem, at a glance, preordained. After transferring to Columbia last fall, as Chungin “Roy” Lee tells it, he used AI to cheat his way through school, used AI to cheat his way through internship interviews at Amazon and Meta—he received offers from both—and…

“…for MacGuineas [of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget], one of the greatest dangers is not simply the debt itself, but the growing sense of complacency surrounding it. ‘The reality is that we’re becoming distressingly numb to our own dysfunction,’ she said. ‘We fail to pass budgets, we…

I recently reviewed Even Realities G1 smart glasses (they're very cool) and the first real-world thing I used them for was scamming someone. I told a local bartender I had an encyclopedic knowledge of film, and I would answer the hardest movie trivia question he could come up with in exchange for a…

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all. I’ll explain. Since ChatGPT’s viral success in late 2022, which drove every…

Sitting down for an early 2000s internal Sony pitch presentation, Shawn Layden noticed something unusual. He was watching a concept video for the next project from the team behind cult-favorite adventure game Ico, and he thought the music sounded familiar. Layden, then vice president of…

Five years ago, long before every LinkedIn influencer legally changed their middle name to “AI”, I made a prediction: PMs would be replacing user research with a GPT. Don’t call me a prophet. I was highlighting PMs only in contrast to designers, because I naively believed that we would be better…

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Journalism from the you're-missing-every-big-story dept Tue, Sep 30th 2025 03:35pm - Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from…

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful…

This article is human authored. I've been coaching a lot of job seekers lately. Some of this is pro bono career coaching for casualties of the federal layoffs in the US, rockstars who need some thought-partnering on how to optimize their approach to the fulltime job of finding a fulltime job. If…

Once upon a time, there was a consensus about the design process: we would do research to understand user needs, and then we would do design to satisfy those needs. That consensus, it seems, is gone. From Cory Doctorow’s thesis on enshittification to Ed Zitron’s Rot Economy to the no-consent culture…

In Gaza, children, journalists and rescue workers who have seen their peers and colleagues killed in front of their eyes for the past two years have started to rejoice at the prospect that their living nightmare could finally be over. So, too, have the families of Israeli hostages who thought they…

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how do you push back on AI without being such a killjoy? We offered a couple pretty useful strategies, if I do…

“I stand up for your right to be religious. But please know that you’re wrong … you’re living in a fantasy land, and after you die nothing happens, stop being a fucking child.” The words of Jim Jefferies there, the riotous Australian-American comedian whose work delights in smashing taboos,…

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest…

William Friedkin’s The French Connection, about ruthless cops chasing ruthless drug smugglers, is a sensationally effective and vastly overrated movie, and I doubt I’ll ever want or need to see it again. Even on first viewing—as a movie-crazed teenager in 1986, courtesy of VHS—its slot in the…

Recently, people have sent me messages asking for travel insight about specific cities I have either lived in or been to. Often, these messages ask me if I have any advice about how the sender can “live like a local.” The wording and intent are always the same: the sender wants to avoid “touristy”…

Over the weekend, an interview circulated in which New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein talked to Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, among other essays and books. Their conversation is a great lens through which to look at the ways information, relationships, and…

Updated at 10:58 ET on September 25, 2025 In one section of a sprawling warehouse in central Ukraine, workers have stacked what appear to be small airplane wings in neat rows. In another section, a group of men is huddled around what looks like the body of an aircraft, adjusting an electronic panel.…

I spent the last two days going through every single comment. 500 people wrote about their experiences. Dozens messaged privately. Here's what stood out. The salary gap "I make £120k to essentially be in meetings about meetings. My friend who's a paramedic saves actual lives for £30k." This comment…

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, delivers remarks at the Federal Reserve on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Last week, OpenAI presented its plans to build $1 trillion of artificial intelligence infrastructure, including sprawling data centers across the U.S. that will require immense…

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Friends, I’ve been directly involved in government shutdowns, one when I was secretary of labor. It’s hard for me to describe the fear, frustration, and chaos that ensued. I recall spending the first day consoling employees — many in tears as they headed out the door. In some ways, this shutdown is…

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Alan Greenspan knows a thing or two about underpants. American history’s second-longest-tenured Fed…

Interview The prolific singer-songwriter discusses the silver lining of grief, her everlasting obsession with nature, and her new album, Neon Grey Midnight Green. September 16, 2025 Photo by Ebru Yildiz. Image by Chris Panicker. When the sun sets in the Pacific Northwest, indigo skies push up…

In my book, Co-Intelligence, I outlined a way that people could work with AI, which was, rather unsurprisingly, as a co-intelligence. Teamed with a chatbot, humans could use AI as a sort of intern or co-worker, correcting its errors, checking its work, co-developing ideas, and guiding it in the…

Jamelle Bouie Sept. 17, 2025 Credit...Ian Willms for The New York Times Listen to this article · 6:39 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist The essence of President Trump’s pitch to the American people last year was simple: They could have it both ways. They could have a powerful, revitalized economy…

Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business. By • - Let history record that when the battle began, Disney CEO Bob Iger did not surrender at once. Oh, no. Iger is one of the most powerful media executives on earth, the ruler of an empire…

In this revealing interview with Tucker Carlson, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman grapples—often uncomfortably—with the staggering moral weight of shepherding humanity’s most powerful technology. The conversation exposes a leader caught between Silicon Valley’s techno-optimist ethos and the profound ethical…

Throughout the two years of the Gaza war, Israeli bombing has been so intense that, in certain weather conditions, its echoes can be heard here in Tel Aviv, 70km away. The mass starvation is quieter. Even images of dead children rarely pierce Israel’s media bubble. The war appears in protests over…

Today I’m 50 years old! That feels absurd, because it’s a big number, the kind of round number that people usually obscure by saying “I’m celebrating a big birthday” or something vague like that. But, since you only get so many of these to celebrate, I’m using this chance to ask everyone who I’m…

When Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: “A hard ‘Hell no.’” Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant…

While playing UFO 50 for this review, I visited an exhibition at London’s Science Museum: Power Up – a hands-on tour of the last five decades of video games. There, in an expansive, dark basement, an orange-illuminated wall of computers and consoles took me right through the 1980s. I sampled such…