Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

Substack author. Plain English podcast host. Abundance co-author. Contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Washington, D.C.

derekthompson.substack.com

Born May 18

Joined May 2009

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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Jun 20, 2025
Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Oct 10
folks in and near the labs sometimes say “we’re not prepared for a world where AI *isn’t* a bubble” and I think that’s true inasmuch as predictions like this imply that frontier lab revenue could exceed total global Apple or even Amazon sales by the end of next year to say that
Fireside Alpha
@firesidealpha
Oct 9
00:58
SemiAnalysis's Dylan Patel predicts OpenAI and Anthropic could reach $600–700 billion in combined revenue by December 2027--and raises the possibility of $1.5 trillion by year-end “As far as AI’s impact on the U.S. economy, if AI revenue is only $3 trillion in 2031, then, yeah,
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Oct 9
there are dystopias everywhere for those with eyes to see
Press Gazette
@pressgazette
Oct 9
EXCLUSIVE: The Quartz website is now mainly produced by one AI-assisted reporter writing 50+ stories per day
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Oct 9
New pod: THE GOLDEN AGE OF BIO & THE DARK AGE OF BIOWEAPONS I talked to @ashishkjha about the Russian plague mystery, the age of bio miracles, the pre-AI threat of bioweapons research, the novel threat of AI to global bio-security, and what we can do about it. We begin with
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Oct 9
Having 2 kids under 3 is an unspeakable joy in so many ways and also “statistically speaking, someone in the house has some kind of cold every other day” sounds just about right. Having a sniffle, sore throat, or sinus pressure goes from a condition you once called Being Sick
Simon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600
Oct 9
Honey, let’s have a third kid to minimize the sick days in our household by 1%.
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