New: Former OpenAI staffers and a group of nonprofits published a letter Tuesday warning that xAI could become a liability for the SpaceX IPO due to "unpriced risks" around safety. They claim xAI's poor safety record could expose it to unique regulatory risks. www.wired.com/story/ex-ope...

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI about as badly and quickly as you can lose a lawsuit. from @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social

Three weeks into the Musk v Altman trial, it feels like every stakeholder is somehow losing in the court of public opinion. A jury is now tasked with deciding a verdict, and will start deliberations next week. From @peard33.bsky.social and me www.wired.com/story/musk-v...

So glad everyone involved in this trial continues to behave like a totally normal grown-up:

it's the last day to present new evidence in the musk v altman trial openai brought its ass

NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents.

Greg Brockman recounted a fight with Elon Musk where he thought he was going to get physically assaulted: www.wired.com/story/greg-b...

Wikipedia is convinced @mzeff.bsky.social is Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. We went down a rabbit hole to find out … why: www.wired.com/story/why-do...

Witty article by my great colleague @mzeff.bsky.social on Wikipedia using his photo in Evan Spiegal entry--& how his heroic efforts have been unable to get it corrected. Under the surface, this indicates something rotten in Wikipedia, a failure of its crowd-sourcing. www.wired.com/story/why-do...

The best part of this excellent @mzeff.bsky.social caper is Evan Spiegel’s reaction to the entire thing:

@mzeff.bsky.social's photo got put on Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia page. Not the first journalist to be done dirty by a Wikipedia editor, either. "Ancient history", in terms of the Internet, at least: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... Wonder how many others?

We’re going to answer your questions about the 10-year-long fight between two billionaires that’s deciding the future of OpenAI. Tune in!

Something extremely funny to me about Altman and Musk trying so hard to win in the court of public opinion as their actual trial gets started

New: The Musk v Altman trial is just getting started, but the public opinion war is well under way. On Monday morning, Musk used his social media platform, X, to promote The New Yorker's extensive investigation into Sam Altman's history of allegedly deceptive behavior.

Three OpenAI execs announced their departures today, including Kevin Weil, who had joined as chief product officer in 2024. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

It's cool that Tinder now lets you see who has chosen to SUBMIT TO THE ORB. from @mzeff.bsky.social

New: Anthropic is opposing the OpenAI-backed Illinois bill that would shield AI labs from liability for mass deaths or financial disasters caused by AI models. Governor Pritzker is signaling he doesn't like the bill, but it's exposing new battlelines in the AI policy debate.

NEW: Someone allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house then went to OpenAI headquarters to make threats at workers. @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

for too long i have suffered in silence techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/p...

OpenAI wants to be off the hook if its frontier AI models go rogue and cause 100+ deaths or more than $1 billion in financial damages. from @mzeff.bsky.social

fascinating behind-the-scenes about journalists using AI in different ways from @mzeff.bsky.social : www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

For @wired.com Model Behavior this week @mzeff.bsky.social talked to prominent independent tech journalists using AI to write and edit their work. (Don’t shoot the messenger!)

Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution? @mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:

NEW: More than 30 OpenAI and Google employees—including Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean —filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government.

New: Sources tell me the Pentagon first experimented with OpenAI's models as early as 2023, but through Microsoft. At the time, OpenAI explicitly banned military use of its AI. It wasn't clear then, but OpenAI now says that ban never applied to Microsoft.

So so proud to be a finalist for this year’s national magazine awards, as part of @wired.com’s “How to Win a Fight” package. You can read the zine I helped compile here: www.wired.com/story/downlo...

openai in its jestermaxxing era

New: In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman tells me his $50M donation to Trump and AI Super PACs was part of an effort to make sure AI benefits all of humanity. However, he acknowledges AI is not very popular with humanity right now. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI president on donating $50 million to pro-Trump and AI PACs: "Anything I can do to support this technology benefiting everyone is a thing that I will do...maybe supporting the team is bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with. It's really team humanity.” from @mzeff.bsky.social

OpenAI president Greg Brockman donated millions to super PACs aligned with President Trump -- much to the dismay of many inside the company. He tells @wired.com that the donations are about being "team humanity." Great story from @mzeff.bsky.social

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents. "As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?" Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

New: Google DeepMind staffers are asking company leaders for "plans and policies" to stop ICE from entering Google's campuses, according to internal messages viewed by WIRED One GDM staffer alleges that a federal agent tried to enter Google's Cambridge campus in the fall.

Silicon Valley is already pouring millions into the US midterm elections, via super PACs looking to elect leaders sympathetic to the AI industry. From @mzeff.bsky.social

New: OpenAI says it will start testing ads in the United States "in the coming weeks." The company says ads will NOT influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

NEW: More details on the drama at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab. TML leaders believe its cofounder Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of serious misconduct last year, leading to trust issues between him and Murati. But now, more researchers are following him and joining OpenAI.

NEW: Thinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz are back at OpenAI after leaving the ChatGPT-maker less than two years ago. Zoph told Mira Murati he was considering leaving her startup on Monday. She fired him today, alleging he shared confidential info with competitors, a source said.

big week for new yorkers yelling at people

NEW: OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload *real work* they've done at current or past jobs to evaluate their AI models. OpenAI leaves it up to contractors to remove any confidential info. scoop w/ @willknight.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New: OpenAI quietly rolled back ChatGPT's model router for free users last week. The router—which was costly for the company to serve, but aimed to improve answer quality—was thought to be hurting engagement, one person familiar with the matter told WIRED.

OpenAI is losing its chief comms officer; Hannah Wong had been there since 2021. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

Loved this piece about Taiwan’s public transit keychains from @lmatsakis.bsky.social, and especially this one collector: “Later, I had a lunchbox-shaped one, but looking at it too long would make me hungry, so I never really used it. I just kept it as a toy.” www.wired.com/story/icash-...

NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement. At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.

An OpenAI staffer has quit, claiming that the company has backed off from publishing negative economic research about AI. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...

SCOOP: As OpenAI faces increased scrutiny over how ChatGPT responds to distressed users, a research leader spearheading that work announced her departure, WIRED has learned. Andrea Vallone, the head of model policy, will leave the company by the end of 2025.

Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...

A $100 million pro-AI super PAC has picked its first target. @mzeff.bsky.social talked to New York congressional candidate Alex Bores about what it's like to be in Andreessen Horowitz's crosshairs: www.wired.com/story/alex-b...

NEW: Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!) www.wired.com/story/trump-...