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The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.

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theatlantic.com > health > 2026 > 09 > ai-virus-nature-pandemic > 688569

The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (146+ words) A clear check on AI-made viruses is the limit of existing knowledge about what makes viruses dangerous. Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution. Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 08 > password-manager-login-difficulty > 688396

I Lost the Password to My Password’s Password

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (19+ words) The Atlantic Logging in was never supposed to be this complicated....

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 08 > openai-hacks-panic > 688264

It May Be Time to Panic About AI

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (102+ words) Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in? The crisis began quietly, on September 12, 2024. That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a “reasoning model,” that was trained to…...

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theatlantic.com > sponsored > rubrik-2026 > companies-think-they-control-ai > 4119

Companies Think They Control AI. The Data Suggests Otherwise.

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (986+ words) In the agentic AI era, operational security cannot be separated from the issue of sovereignty. And sovereignty is the ability to prove observability, bounded authority, auditability, reversibility, and resilience across AI systems that no single entity fully owns. Atlantic Insights,…...

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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 > 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....

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 06 > trump-administration-signal-chat-marco-rubio > 687735

Hegseth, Rubio, and Caine Had an Auto-Deleting Signal Chat

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (165+ words) New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop. President Trump drew a simple lesson after his top national security advisers accidentally texted war plans to The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg,…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 06 > spacex-starlink-ipo-elon-musk-trillionaire > 687651

The Seven-Headed Hydra at the End of Finance

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (4+ words) What has SpaceX become?...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 06 > ai-hacking-cybersecurity-banks > 687562

Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (110+ words) The Atlantic AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Late last month, I began to consider withdrawing some money from my savings account to buy gold. It’s the first time I’ve ever…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 06 > data-centers-activism-ai-slop > 687396

The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (76+ words) The Atlantic Anti-AI sentiment is genuine, but its online expression looks stranger and stranger. Read: Inside the dirty, dystopian world of AI data centers Some of the people who are most put off by those buildings’ presence are getting taken…...