Generative-AI companies are scrambling to remake internet search. To do so, they will need to forge uneasy alliances with the media, Matteo Wong writes. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"Life is short, and you can’t know it all, not even about yourself. But you can know, at least to some extent, what you chose not to know and what you wished you’d found out." newyorker.com/culture/open-q…

Big Yogurt 0, Yasmin Tayag 1 theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Click for Damon's surprising email exchange directly with Elon Musk, stay for the insightful, clear framework for Musk's election takes.

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“There are very few axioms of human life. One is that everybody dies; a second that everybody ages,” Matteo Wong writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “Perhaps a third axiom is that humans obsess over our only common fate.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Police officers are starting to love EVs. Can they help Republicans do the same? @Matteo_wong explores: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"At least in the fever swamps of social media, AI art is becoming MAGA-coded." Charlie Warzel's written a great piece on all of this unpleasant nonsense:

"The pollsters know they messed up in 2020. They are cautiously optimistic that they’ve learned from their mistakes. Of course, they thought that last time too." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

So Kurt Andersen has some questions for Trump's newest endorser—who once sold him a gram of cocaine: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

"What is natural, after all, about being hurtled through the troposphere in a pressurized metal tube burning petroleum distillates refined from dinosaur debris?" dont miss Ian Bogost on rawdogging flyers: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Profoundly interesting story by Matteo Wong about chatbots' ability to subtly mislead and even plant false memories in users. We've known for a long time that "hallucinations" are an issue, but the reality and risk are significantly more nuanced, strange, and concerning,

With more and more people accessing the web via generative AI, I investigated these products' capacity to influence people's knowledge, opinions, even memories. The issue may be more complex and pernicious than a fake image or article: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

As chatbots and AI search engines become default access points for much of the web, these tools will have the potential to manipulate people’s knowledge, opinions, and even memories, writes Matteo Wong: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

If you enjoyed this tweet, check out our wonderful AI stories, many of which I assigned and edited (and a few of which I wrote), thanks theatlantic.com/projects/artif…

The effort to save Hakai Magazine.com is fully underway. So far, we've lined up commitments worth about half of what we need to keep publishing. Ideally, we want one or two more large foundations or donations to give us a solid floor before we throw the doors to reader donations.

Fascinating back-to-school reading newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

More and more criticism of AI art misses the mark—and risks constraining our conceptions of human creativity and the technology alike: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"Snacks are everything we want to eat, and so everything is becoming snacks." Fascinating on the rise of snacks from Ellen Cushing: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Seems like a good time to reshare, if you're just catching up and want a slightly different angle on the Carlsen/Niemann feud as the match kicks off: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…