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Sam Altman

Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity

October 16, 2026

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Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence

September 29, 2026

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What Tech Titans Don’t Understand About Sci-Fi

September 4, 2026

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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Very Sorry to Postpone Her Dinner

August 28, 2026

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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again

Alexandra Petri

August 4, 2026

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Elon Musk Gets a Reality Check

May 18, 2026

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk Sure Dislike Each Other

April 28, 2026

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Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human

April 24, 2026

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OpenAI Is Doing Everything … Poorly

March 25, 2026

OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying

March 6, 2026

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

March 5, 2026

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Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon

March 1, 2026

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Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

February 23, 2026

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A Reckoning for the Tech Right

January 27, 2026

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Sam Altman Got What He Wanted

December 12, 2025

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I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

December 11, 2025

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OpenAI Is in Trouble

December 9, 2025

ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism

December 8, 2025

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The New Brutality of OpenAI

November 10, 2025

A Tool That Crushes Creativity

October 20, 2025

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Why So Many People Are Seduced by ChatGPT

October 16, 2025

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AI’s Emerging Teen-Health Crisis

Kaitlyn Tiffany and Matteo Wong

September 18, 2025

Do AI Companies Actually Care About America?

August 25, 2025

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

August 18, 2025

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Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said

August 15, 2025

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The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race

August 7, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Sexting With Gemini

August 2025 Issue

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The AI Industry Is Radicalizing

July 8, 2025

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OpenAI Can Stop Pretending

May 30, 2025

A Reality Check for Tech Oligarchs

May 28, 2025

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OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear

May 21, 2025

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’

May 15, 2025

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The Great AI Lock-In Has Begun

April 22, 2025

Atlantic Intelligence

The Curse of ChatGPT

April 18, 2025

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What Silicon Valley Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism

April 16, 2025

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A Love-Hate Letter to Technology

April 10, 2025

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