Inside Atlantic Labs: The Atlantic’s big bet on AI, games, and the future of journalism
The storied publication created a quarantined space to experiment with future technologies and new editorial initiatives.
More than 165 years ago, the literary greats of American writing—including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Melville—assembled to cosign a boisterous manifesto promising to lead the discourse on literature, art, and politics in an initiative that would become The Atlantic.
Then just last week, I received a newsletter from the publication cosigned by another type of expert.
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