New: The liberal billionaire @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social's campaign has been paying influencers to champion his run for California governor - and many are doing so without disclosure. One big TikToker, who called the 68-year-old a "vibe," didn't mention he'd been paid $10,000 wapo.st/4twTpOh

Life on other planets seems totally feasible to me. It also seems like quite the moment to distract everyone with that idea.

Breaking News: The Trump administration is discussing vetting new A.I. models before they are publicly released.

NEW- NEW- The White House is reversing course and considering vetting AI models before they are released. With @trippmickle.bsky.social @julianbarnes.bsky.social and @dustinvolz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

NEW- The White House is reversing course and considering vetting AI models before they are released. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

New story with @julianbarnes.bsky.social and @tylerpager.bsky.social: Anthropic had talks at the White House today to try and see if there is a compromise to be had. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/t...

Want to announce that I am finally a good enough gardner to grow flowers for home-made bouquets!

"Each nation is aiming to amass the most advanced technological stockpile in case they need to fight drone against drone and algorithm against algorithm in ways that people cannot match, defense and intelligence officials said."

Our look at how the sprint for A.I.-backed weapons is the new nuclear arms race. Joined forces with @paulmozur.bsky.social in Taiwan and Adam Satariano in London for this global story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/t...

Nothing like a week of this.

A week in paradise, aka Zihuatanejo

I need advice. I have a slot to buy tickets for the 2028 summer Olympics. I have two daughters I want to bring who will both be under 10. They don’t follow any sport particularly closely, I just want them to experience badass female athletes. Which event should I buy tickets for?

Anthropic just won its preliminary injunction against the Trump admin. Judge writes that, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.”

NEW: A District Court judge has blocked the Pentagon policy restricting journalists' access, ruling that it violated the 1st amendment & granting an injunction sought by the @nytimes.com.

Illuminating story from @sheeraf.bsky.social @nytimes.com, situating the Iran war in Silicon Valley’s decade-long push to transform warfare. Who stands to lose the most when industry bets big on war? Civilians and taxpayers. @brennancenter.org explains why: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Tahini as a salad dressing. Tahini as a dipping sauce for crudite. Tahini as a lubricant on bread in any sandwich. I 100% support all of these decisions. But I won’t be talked Tahini in my coffee.

Honored to be in the company of these women.

No, YOU spent over hour elbow-deep in trash, looking for the retainer your kid accidentally threw away in a school trash can. At the end of a workday. That started at 6am.

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An ongoing military investigation has determined that the US was responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school that killed 175, refuting Trump's claim that Iran did it. @julianbarnes.bsky.social @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

Two of the East Bay’s biggest hometown heroes, Zendaya and Alysa Liu, have finally crossed paths, and their interaction was just as wholesome as fans expected.

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @rokhanna.bsky.social, @sheeraf.bsky.social and @cnas.bsky.social's Paul Scharre about the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon and the ethics and effectiveness of using AI in war. ❓What are your questions about how AI could be used in war? 📻Listen:

You can hear me on the Daily today, talking about the robot wars future we are all hurtling into. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/p...

NEW- Anthropic has officially filed suit agains the Pentagon over the supply chain risk designation. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/t...

NYT finds more video evidence confirming its earlier conclusion that the double-tap strike on a girls' school in Minab was carried out by US forces, contradicting Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible.

Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

This is a love song for Northern California.

Hope Bezos does an interview soon where he explains, again, why he thought his foreign bureaus were expendable.

Drones are changing the way nation states fight wars. Our story on how Iran’s arsenal of lightweight drones is punching through missile defense shields: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

"In the end, the talks between Anthropic and the Department of Defense were undone by weeks of building frustration between men who had differing philosophies about A.I. and who did not like one another."

We profiled Palmer Luckey, who is at the forefront of new defense tech companies selling autonomous weapons to the U.S. military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

The deal between the Pentagon and Anthropic didn’t just fall apart because of disagreement over the mass surveillance of Americans. In the background, there were also warring personality differences between men who have know each other for years in Silicon Valley. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

First street art of hometown hero Alysa Liu already going up in Oakland!

When you are working all weekend and your kids want your attention so you open your laptop screen to find this:

When you call the DOD and they point you to this as their timeline🙃

I stopped working for an hour to have dinner with my kids, and Open AI announces they have reached a deal with Pentagon under… the same terms Anthropic was requesting? If anyone can explain what is going on, my DMs are open ;)

Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

A US-based company has never been declared a supply chain risk. The decision by the Pentagon to use this tactic against Anthropic will almost certainly end up in court: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

I haven’t had time to post because everything I blink there is a news development in the Anthropic V. Pentagon story. Today, the Defense Department took the unprecedented step of declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk for not capitulating to their demands: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Always a pleasure to talk to Lizzie! Here is my big thoughts on the Anthropic/DOD fight: it’s really a fight about the future of warfare.

Morning! @sheeraf.bsky.social and I break down the Anthropic/Pentagon fight. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

NEW: citing our reporting, a group of lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies on how many administrative subpoenas they have received from the Homeland Security Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...