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The Atlantic is a long-running American magazine covering politics, culture, technology, and ideas, with a growing digital and puzzle-games presence.
Caine Prize is reviewing Simbarashe Kundizeza's winning story after The Atlantic reported that Pangram software scored it as almost completely AI-generated. Any ruling would rest on a tool that, by the critic's own account, has little independent testing behind it.
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Brent crude rose 3.7% to $103.91 a barrel on Thursday as data showed Iran stepping up tanker attacks in Hormuz and reports of new US strikes spread. With the 10-year Treasury at 5.32%, the oil move hit equities as inflation risk and European indexes opened 0.64% to 1.06% lower.
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Brent crude rose more than 5% to over $105 a barrel Thursday as President Trump weighed renewed large-scale strikes on Iran. For operators, the decision sets how far costs climb from here, since diesel and freight had been rising for months before it.
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David Robinson quit OpenAI after leading safety reports for 12 model launches and wrote in The Atlantic that the company's culture is broken. He helped write the safety process he now faults, so OpenAI cannot easily wave the critique away.
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Peter Gray's Restoring Childhood traces the 2010s fall in teen mental health to Common Core-era schooling and lost autonomy. The causal story under teen age gates now has two named researchers arguing against it.
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Nicholas Thompson took The Atlantic from red ink to profit and 1.6 million subscribers. He says the early OpenAI deal has paid in cash and in enforceable limits on imitation, and that the traffic he expected did not follow.
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A professorship marketed on a life story, then a plagiarism allegation, a resignation, and a death nine days later. The verification nobody did was the cheapest duty of care available.
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Ramp's June card-spend index puts open-source and Chinese model serving in firms spending $248 per employee, 23 times the median. The cheap-model migration is starting at the top.
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The Game Band's new daily word game gives players ten guesses and a Clippy-inspired dart that generates hints from a local model. Its designer built a character specifically to absorb bad ones.
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