The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

Nicholas Thompson runs one of the few media companies that can say things are going pretty well: The Atlantic is profitable, growing, and boasts 1.6 million subscribers. But that's today. What comes next is the bulk of our conversation: Thompson — a big AI guy — tells me what The Atlantic's deal with OpenAI has and hasn't delivered, why he thinks publishers may need to make money from a web increasingly run by bots and agents, and what he thinks his actual human readers want. Also on the docket: What it means to work for a media company owned by billi...