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Mat Honan

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 8, 2026
Outlet visibility, for MIT Technology Review
Top 500K sites
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Aug 26, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Mat Honan

    This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected (opens the original)

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    Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up for in robots. Humanoids of various shapes and sizes hang like marionettes from racks that run down the center of the wide-open space. While Hafner, 31, won’t say too much about his new venture just y

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Mat Honan

    Raised on AI (opens the original)

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    When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet. Fast-forward a couple of years to when my second kid came, and I had essentially the opposite reaction. I wanted to make sure I preserved her privacy. I didn’t want her birthday to be a matter of public reco

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Mat Honan

    Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what? (opens the original)

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    It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in the water, and across the lake to the Olympic Mountains that define the horizon. It’s gorgeous. And vaguely terrifying. Because if the scene is placid, the messenger is not.

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