People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Leo becomes the 267th Catholic pope, in a surprise choice, after the death of Pope Francis last month. He's the first American pontiff and became a cardinal only in 2023 reut.rs/43fF2mC

The Permian basin has dominated attention in the U.S. energy sector over the past several years, but with rising gas prices and demand for LNG, investment firms and operators are getting excited about the Haynesville www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA

If any journalists who have been laid off today from the WSJ (or those elsewhere wanting a change of scenery) are looking to work at a stable media company where (beyond the pretty good benefits) you get to go narrow and deep within IT or corp finance, apply and hit me up. jobs.lever.co/morningbrew

Exclusive: Some US government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries, four sources told Reuters reut.rs/4h2A55r

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

This Kendrick halftime show is high art.

Houston, where the hotel art is of oil rigs

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say @reuters.com

Scores of people were feared dead after an American Airlines passenger jet with 64 people on board and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport. Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/3WzdxS7

Trump threw open the doors for oil and gas drillers to develop in Alaska, but companies are unlikely to rush in just yet. W/ @valerievolc.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/ene...

President Trump took his oath of office without placing his left hand on the two Bibles that his wife Melania held as she stood by his side. The apparent oversight has no practical impact, academics say, but it roused curiosity online reut.rs/3WpEg3H

I’m glad I squeezed in one last hour of TikTok scrolling tonight

Only thought that comes to mind is - wow China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My first day covering energy is complete ✅ And here's my first story www.reuters.com/legal/exxon-...

New year, new beat! After 7 years of covering some form of media/tech, I'm extremely excited to start from scratch on the endlessly interesting oil sector

A US appeals court upheld a law requiring a sale of TikTok or else it will be banned. TikTok can appeal to the Supreme Court or a full appeals court panel www.reuters.com/legal/us-app...

Just wild www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

A student reporter at Stanford embedded with pro-Palestinian protesters. Cops arrested him alongside them, which he knew was a risk. What he didn't expect: Stanford pushing prosecutors to charge him criminally with burglary, vandalism, and conspiracy—all felonies. www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🚨 NEW 🚨 UK police forces quietly withdraw from X platform amid content concerns 🚓 www.reuters.com/technology/u...

“.. It is now a parlor game in Washington and Silicon Valley to speculate just how long the Musk-Trump relationship will last.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

big reuters presence already❗️ follow all of our accounts ✨ @reuters.com @graphics.reuters.com @pictures.reuters.com @legal.reuters.com @breakingviews.reuters.com @facts.reuters.com @japan.reuters.com

The question of verification on this app is definitely becoming an issue with the rapid growth. Looks like someone else has snapped up the Linda Yaccarino handle

Big journalism news: Sally Buzbee, former Executive Editor of The Washington Post and The Associated Press, is joining @reuters.com as News Editor for the United States and Canada.

Musk's political ascendency is stirring up hopes among the beleaguered banks that lent him $13 billion to acquire Twitter. By my colleagues Shankar Ramakrishnan and Echo Wang www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Wrote about arguably my favorite topic in all of sports: Jerry Jones spending $1.2 billion on a stadium built at the exact orientation so the sun shines directly into players eyes during the months when the Cowboys play football: open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...

Will actually watch the Oscars now www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/b...

Alright. Reuters reporters, editors, columnists, etc on Bluesky, here we go: go.bsky.app/Su2YTra

NEW: X/Twitter's "freedom of speech, not reach" policy aimed to add nuance to content moderation, but was challenging to help advertisers understand, says former head of brand safety AJ Brown. Brown is now COO of the Brand Safety Institute www.reuters.com/technology/m...

It's not just Meta and Microsoft that pose a problem for X, fka Twitter - one lawyer counted nearly 900 active trademark registrations that cover the letter X https://www.reuters.com/technology/problem-with-x-meta-microsoft-hundreds-more-own-trademarks-new-twitter-name-2023-07-25/

😭😭😭 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/23/dog-pet-parade-100-birthday/

Truth Social's head of engineering has resigned to work on open-source tech for decentralized social media https://www.reuters.com/technology/head-engineering-trumps-truth-social-app-resigns-2023-07-17/ by my colleague Helen Coster

See everyone on Threads tomorrow!