Yikes! Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia and NYU are calling for guardrails on certain infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses. www.axios.com/2026/02/17/a...

This morning I wrote a story about ads coming to ChatGPT. Then managed to sprint across Alamo Square Park to move my car at 8:57am for 9am street cleaning. I am basically the Queen of San Francisco.

Local @axios.com news you can USE ☃️ www.axios.com/local/denver...

AI is upending everything, including retirement planning, @axios.com's @megmorrone.bsky.social reports www.axios.com/2025/11/29/a...

Chatbots were just the starter course. Now ChatGPT has a browser. It's a shopping mall. It's an app store. It's a social media app. It's porn. Full story @axios: www.axios.com/2025/10/22/o...

I'm on The Daily today talking about my reporting on AI chatbots and how heavy users of ChatGPT can go into delusional, and sometimes tragic, spirals: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p... Also today, an OpenAI blog post from Sam Altman on "safety, freedom & privacy": openai.com/index/teen-s...

OpenAI is rolling out new ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in distress: parental controls, crisis support, trusted contacts. This is nearly one year after the first parent sued an AI company over a child’s suicide. Read @axios.com → axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-health-teens

I want to talk to you about your kids’ K-12 new school AI policies this year. For an @axios.com story. Please share this most with anyone. I’m at Megan.Morrone@Axios

I'm looking to chat with anyone who definitely would not like their next of kin to reanimate them with AI after they die...as one does. This is for an Axios story. DM me here or [email protected].

DM me about your AI job anxiety. I'm less empathetic than ChatGPT and it might be used in a story with your permission. So email if you're OK with that: [email protected]

NEW data first reported by Axios: • ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, per OpenAI • More than 330M of those are in US • The free version of ChatGPT is used by the vast majority of the platform's 500m weekly active users

Agents. Agents. Agents. Agents. ChatGPT Agent is out today. OpenAI says it can start and finish complex web and computing tasks without you holding its hand. I’ll be testing it soon. In the meantime, here’s my Axios piece with the details: www.axios.com/2025/07/17/c...

CISA spent years building out its role (and brand!) as the country's go-to partner on cyber issues. piece by piece, that work is being dismantled as workforce reductions and budget cuts hit the agency. more from today's @axios future of cyber newsletter: www.axios.com/2025/07/15/c...

ChatGPT’s new memory feature is here. And it raises big questions. For @axios.com I talked with OpenAI's Christina Wadsworth Kaplan and Samir Ahmed about how memory works in ChatGPT and what it means to be remembered by a chatbot. www.axios.com/2025/07/11/c...

I am a very simple woman. All I want is for AI to do my expense reports

New @axios.com story: Upwork data shows a rise in “vibe coders” — people using AI to code without knowing how — and demand for “generalists” who can blend AI with creative skills. www.axios.com/2025/06/30/a...

Anthropic just dropped new data on how folks are using Claude for emotional support. Bots can be comforting. But they weren’t built for therapy. Thx to @miles.land &‬ Alex Sanderford from @anthropic.com & @erictopol.bsky.social for insights. In @axios.com AI+. www.axios.com/2025/06/26/a...

From @megmorrone.bsky.social: Trump will attend a summit next month at Carnegie Mellon -- a big win for Sen. Dave McCormick's efforts to bring AI and energy leaders together. www.axios.com/2025/06/12/t...

Here is your friendly reminder that LLMs are simply guessing at the next word. They're not designed to give you facts or to verify them. They don't "think," they infer. As far as I know, dogs still are unable to use Google when they've lost their socks.

I wrote for @axios.com about the executive “digital twin”: bots trained on a leader’s voice, writing, and decisions to scale their time and influence. With insight from @levie.bsky.social, @samliang.bsky.social @jlevitt.bsky.social and @jgcarpenter.com. Read here: www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

As far as I'm concerned this is the biggest news of the day www.axios.com/local/chicag...

I’ve been on a plane from NY to SF for the past few hours and I’ve never before wished so hard that I didn’t have wifi.

For @axios.com, I wrote about why AI hallucinations persist. And why tech companies aren’t doing more to fix them. (Hint: accuracy is expensive, and speed sells.) 🧵 www.axios.com/2025/06/04/f...

The ChatGPT bans are gone, but the fear and secrecy stuck around. People are using AI behind their bosses backs, and it’s a recipe for screwups. New from me at @axios.com , with insight from Gong, Coursera, @atlassian.bsky.social, mixus and @emollick.bsky.social: www.axios.com/2025/05/29/s...

Brace yourselves: We've officially climbed out the other side of the uncanny valley. There’s something eerie and also inevitable about watching an AI-generated actor wrestle with the fact that they were created by a prompt. My latest for Axios: www.axios.com/2025/05/23/g...

I talked to experts about what we lose when we turn to prompts instead of people. Story here: www.axios.com/2025/04/25/a...

OpenAI's newest model "thinks" with images, per @inafried.bsky.social on @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/16/o...

"There will be no interruption in service. All NOAA Research sites will remain online," a NOAA spokesperson told Axios Friday afternoon. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

PSA: Claude, SF's beloved albino alligator, now has a livestream — and it's giving us life. Watch: calacademy.org/learn-explore/animal-webcams/claude-cam The webcam is sponsored by @anthropic.com — who, fittingly, also has a virtual assistant named Claude. The collab we didn't know we needed. 🐊🤝

A lot of Silicon Valley finds the whole DOGE/Musk approach troubling, or just bad management — but they're afraid to say so out loud. New from @issielapowsky.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Musk says xAI has acquired X www.axios.com/2025/03/28/m...

As AI's abilities improve and the gap between human and machine intelligence narrows, today's "humans in the loop" promise could end up as just a placeholder. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/h...

Nearly 30% of parents with kids under 8 say their child has used AI for learning. A new study raises big questions about how AI is shaping kids’ critical thinking skills. My latest for @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/01/a...

OpenAI debuts GPT-4.5. This is OpenAI's largest model yet — though the company declined to offer details about its size or the computing resources it took to train it. Read more from @inafried.bsky.social at @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/02/27/c...

When little Meg decided to become a writer at age 5 she had no idea that she'd one day be making her living writing sentences like "Humans like to interact with other humans," and yet here we are. www.axios.com/2025/02/25/a...

Welcome to a new series I’m calling “texts with my 20-year-old”

Elon Musk’s DOGE will reportedly use AI to detect waste and fraud. I spoke to experts who say this could trigger chaos. www.axios.com/2025/02/18/d...

OpenAI just released Operator, it's agent that will do web tasks for you. But you have to pay $200/month to access it (for now). www.axios.com/2025/01/23/o...

Confused about immigration in the news? Here's my intro immigration reading list of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, history and memoirs. These are some of my favorites. Reply with some of yours. #immigration #refugees #asylumseekers #immigrants #borders #migrants #migration #walls

i think a lot of folks recognize AI occasionally makes mistakes and are willing to give a little leeway to an emerging tech, but three lies in three tries is quite a batting average for a mass consumer product from one of the richest companies in world history

The company is ending its major DEI programs across the company, effective immediately

For @axios.com I wrote about the race to generate AI video that obeys the laws of physics and doesn't steal @mkbhd.com's plant. www.axios.com/2025/01/03/o...

Brainstorm buddy, personal stylist, diet coach and literally anything else. Here’s how we’ll use AI chatbots in 2025: www.axios.com/2025/01/01/a...

This is me cooking, according to Sora

Merry Eve Eve 🎄it will be a holiday miracle if this instagram reel recipe is good!

BREAKING: The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill to extend government funding until March.

Somewhere, in some other time, someone will figure out a business model that allows these stories to be born and shared beyond small but intense surges of happiness #AxiosLatino www.axios.com/2024/12/19/l...

🥂 www.axios.com/2024/12/19/m...

Character.AI updates app after new lawsuit by the parents of a 17 and an 11-yr-old. "I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like 'child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse,'" the chatbot allegedly said about screen time rules. www.axios.com/2024/12/12/c...

Until telecom networks fully secure their networks, China will keep finding ways to come back in, officials have warned. www.axios.com/newsletters/...