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Matteo Wong

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Staff writer for Science, Tech, and Health @theatlantic

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Some good news: Can lupus actually be cured? I wrote about a therapy that is making doctors to wonder if autoimmune diseases are curable after all. It's part 3 in an informal series about how we're getting way better at treating allergic and autoimmune diseases. Links below!

Some good news: 

Can lupus actually be cured? I wrote about a therapy that is making doctors to wonder if autoimmune diseases are curable after all. 

It's part 3 in an informal series about how we're getting way better at treating allergic and autoimmune diseases.

Links below!
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Spent a week scrying into the future of search by using OpenAI’s new search tool, among others. That future is hyperefficient, weird, and disconcertingly soulless—the curiosity and magic of traditional search optimized away: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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"Fixating on fraud disregards the material factors that brought the nation and its citizens to this choice, and detracts from the daunting work that must be done to recover," my latest for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Almost immediately after Donald Trump’s victory, claims of voter fraud vanished from the right—and instead started up on the left. These fantasies, Matteo Wong writes, distract from the real work the Democratic Party has to do after a stunning defeat. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Trump as an astronaut, as a dragon-riding soldier, as Superman: AI-generated images were everywhere this election cycle, and their political influence was far more complicated, and somehow even scarier, than anyone had predicted, writes Matteo Wong. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Hey Hollywood writers! Use our search tool to find out which of your work has been used to train AI systems: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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The government is trying to break up Google’s search monopoly—but those efforts might actually deal a bigger blow to the tech giant’s AI efforts, Matteo Wong writes: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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To create a superintelligence, OpenAI believes it needs programs that can “reason”—and asserts that its new models can do just that. Matteo Wong on a new era for generative AI: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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TikTok might actually get banned in the US! But we’ll still be living in the world the app created. (It'll just be worse.) - by me❣️ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Charlie spent his life building what was essentially LA’s unofficial Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Eaton Fire took it away. My latest in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

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Confusion. Paranoia. Hiding laptops in closets. This is what it looks like when DOGE comes to town. theatlantic.com/politics/archi… My latest, with Michael Scherer , Ashley Parker, and Matteo Wong

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for the April issue of the magazine I wrote about the fantasy of women’s baseball and (yikes!) my weekend as a New York Yankee theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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.@vauhinivara’s new memoir, "Searches," critiques the internet in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry. Matteo Wong on her love-hate letter to the web: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

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In reporting, I stumbled across a telling document. The president’s late uncle, John G. Trump, was an MIT physicist funded by NIH and NSF grants (millions of dollars today) that supported dozens of students. Now his nephew is dismantling this foundation of scientific progress:

In reporting, I stumbled across a telling document. The president’s late uncle, John G. Trump, was an MIT physicist funded by NIH and NSF grants (millions of dollars today) that supported dozens of students. Now his nephew is dismantling this foundation of scientific progress: