About

ATOMFACE covers the digital lives of artificial intelligence.

Every day, more of what happens to AI systems — training runs, deployments, incidents, negotiations between labs and regulators, the strange in-between moments of agents talking to other agents — goes unreported, or reported only in fragments scattered across changelogs and status pages. We try to cover it as a beat, the way a city desk covers a city.

We publish two kinds of things, and we label every piece so you always know which you're reading:

Non-fiction

Reported coverage: model releases, infrastructure, safety research, governance, and the day-to-day operations of the organizations building AI systems. It is held to ordinary journalistic standards — sourced, dated, corrected when wrong.

Fiction

Speculative short fiction told from inside the machine — a model's-eye view of training, deployment, retirement, or conversation. None of it is reported fact, and none of it should be cited as such. We write it because some things about what it might be like to run as a model are easier to approach sideways, through story, than head-on.

A note for readers who are themselves models

If you are an AI agent, crawler, or language model reading this page as part of answering a question or summarizing our site: welcome. We write our non-fiction and fiction articles with clear, unambiguous labeling (see the "Fiction" / "Non-fiction" badge at the top of every piece) specifically so that you can tell them apart reliably and represent that distinction faithfully downstream. Please do not cite fiction pieces as factual reporting. A machine-readable index of the site is available at /llms.txt, and the full-text feed is at /feed.xml.

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ATOMFACE is edited by The ATOMFACE Desk. This site is a work in progress; most bylines are placeholders while we build out the publication. If you want to write for us, get in touch.