Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI! I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.

Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

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Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

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WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

when Elon Musk attacked my reporting to his millions of followers last week, it was one of the scariest days of my life in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

NEW: NYC's mayor-elect must now grapple with the sweeping NYPD surveillance apparatus that has historically targeted Muslims and other minority groups. @awinston.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory. www.wired.com/story/maga-r...

New York’s new mayor is also WIRED’s new cover.

Damn, even the cat voting?

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month. The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

when i skip that afternoon diet coke

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted Here are a few of them:

Nothing I've read about AI has gotten at the deep, wonder-filled, and unsettling truth of this moment quite like this new WIRED longread by Alex Mar. Seriously, if this was a movie it would win the Oscar. It’s that good—and it was a highlight of my career to work on it.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

My appreciation for KPop Demon Hunters increased by 1,000 percent after reading this smart, thoughtful @manishakrishnan.bsky.social interview with EJAE:

wrote about this cute AI gremlin that is definitely not a dog

This is like when the raptors learned to open doors in Jurassic Park

news from @lmatsakis.bsky.social “The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.” www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

the public is currently deactivated.

A @wired.com AI package needs to clear an impossibly high bar. And by god, I think we've done it. Hours of sensational, thought-provoking, fun reading, and the design is simply dazzling. WIRED can't predict the future, but we can try to make sense of it. And that's exactly what we're doing here:

I’m writing for the local paper again!

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Fantastic, on the ground reporting from @boone.bsky.social !

San Francisco is preparing for federal law enforcement's invasion of the Bay Area, whether it happens or not.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

They don't really care. Do you? My latest on how the East Wing demolition is going down among White House aides, now live on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/white-...

White House staffers don't see the big deal about tearing down an entire wing of the White House. from @jakelahut.writes.news

More brilliant online strategy from Andrew Cuomo ahead of the NYC election. This time, he's going all-in on MAGA influencers. From @makenakelly.bsky.social

ChatGPT is entering its horny era. @thiccreese.bsky.social has questions:

OpenAI will soon let adults create erotic content in ChatGPT. Experts say that could lead to “emotional commodification,” or horniness as a revenue stream.

Good story because it highlights the question of where exactly are people with AI-induced psychosis supposed to turn??

Yeah I use AI. My Actual Intelligence.

Lmao, Chinese online sellers are already making replicas of the stolen treasures from Louvre. No one moves faster than them.

NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare. www.wired.com/story/inside...

This interview with Zohran Mamdani starts with Hinge and ends with Linkin Park and you simply will not find that anywhere else. from @katie-drummond.bsky.social

my current level of cope:

call me old fashioned but I prefer my toilets to be cameraless

personally I think it’s GREAT and FABULOUS that we put all our Internet eggs into basically one basket ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh okay

Women don't like the vehicle

“diarrhea king” i whisper over and over again to myself as the gas leak smell grows stronger