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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times 404media.co/chicago-sun-ti…

NEW: OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion. With Kate Rooney cnbc.com/2025/05/21/ope…

Employee protests continued during the Microsoft Build session on best AI security practices, and the company's AI security chief accidentally switched her screen share amid the disruption.

My industry research indicates the following regarding the new AI hardware device from Jony Ive's collaboration with OpenAI: 1. Mass production is expected to start in 2027. 2. Assembly and shipping will occur outside China to reduce geopolitical risks, with Vietnam currently the

Anthropic just released its most powerful suite of AI models yet: Claude 4. It can work autonomously for seven hours straight, according to the company. We spoke with execs Jared Kaplan & Mike Krieger about what it means & how long it took to develop: cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cla…

Anthropic's Jared Kaplan says the company stopped investing in chatbots at the end of 2024 and instead focused on improving Claude's ability to do complex tasks (Hayden Field / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cla… techmeme.com/250522/p32#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

When strategic deception is useful, Claude Opus 4 engages in it aggressively — e.g. resorting to blackmail, writing self-propagating viruses, fabricating legal documents, planting hidden messages for future versions of itself, attempting self-exfiltration, sourcing weapons and

Microsoft employees are concerned it's been blocking emails containing “Palestine,” “Gaza" & "genocide"—even if the terms are in an HR complaint, according to screenshots, recordings & docs viewed by CNBC, plus multiple sources sharing their experiences. cnbc.com/2025/05/22/mic…

NEW: OpenAI’s skyrocketing valuation has turned a lot of its employees into millionaires. But when they want to donate their equity to charity, they’ve been unable to do so. And sources say the company has put the issue on the backburner for years. cnbc.com/2025/05/23/ope…

Some ~personal news~: It's my last day at CNBC! I'm so beyond grateful for my time here. I've gotten to break market-moving scoops, pursue deep investigations & amplify AI worker voices, working with a team of extraordinary journalists I cherish. New gig starts 6/2—more soon!

The Verge hires Hayden Field as senior AI reporter theverge.com/press-room/677…

Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X (Hayden Field / The Verge) theverge.com/news/678858/go… techmeme.com/250604/p13#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

OpenAI's ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users," and in the race to corner the enterprise AI market, it's adding new features like "record mode" for meeting notes & connectors to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, etc. theverge.com/news/679580/ch…

ChatGPT just added meeting note summaries Shots fired at Granola and Notion, which just added the same feature. Google has it with Gemini in Meet too The chatbot with the most context wins

LLMs are getting rapidly more evals aware! Afaik, nobody has a good plan for what to do when the models constantly say "This is an eval testing for X. Let's say what the developers want to hear" during evals.

Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

Today, Anthropic announced Claude Gov, its product designed for U.S. defense & intelligence agencies. The AI models have looser guardrails for gov use & are trained to better analyze classified information. It directly competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT Gov. theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

"If users were to ask our models on whether they’re conscious, our stance... is for the model to acknowledge the complexity of consciousness – highlighting the lack of a universal definition or test, and to invite open discussion."

had a great time on a NY Tech Week panel yesterday about AI + the supply chain with Maria Aspan & Emilia David ✨