OpenAI’s chief revenue officer sent a 4-page memo to employees on Sunday about the company’s strategic direction, emphasizing the need to lock in users, build a moat and grow its enterprise business. (It also threw shade at its longtime rival Anthropic.) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Went on Decoder to chat about the AI monetization "cliff" and a lot of other happenings in the industry over the last two weeks 🤙

In recent months, a slew of executive reshufflings, discontinued projects, and other news has raised questions about how stable the company really is — and how long it may be able to stay on top. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social:

Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company’s AI efforts. Will it live up to the hype?

The vibes are off at OpenAI

Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others will use Claude Mythos Preview to spot vulnerabilities in their systems -- and for the foreseeable future, the model won't be released to the public.

Tons of C-suite changes at OpenAI today, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. -AGI boss Fidji Simo takes leave of absence -CMO Kate Rouch steps down due to health -COO Brad Lightcap steps down from his role to transition to new one -More below

Mustafa Suleyman says renegotiating Microsoft’s contract with OpenAI “unlocked [Microsoft’s] ability to pursue superintelligence." Though his new job description at Microsoft AI was only made public last month, he'd been preparing for the transition for 6-9 months. www.theverge.com/report/90579...

crazy that a scientist wrote this in august 1955

Sora seems to have taken up a massive amount of compute without the financial return to justify it. But despite its short life, Sora is leaving behind a legacy of eroded trust in judging what’s real. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Why OpenAI killed Sora

After Anthropic’s weeks-long standoff with the Pentagon, the company won one milestone: A judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit, which sought to reverse its government blacklisting while the judicial process plays out. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social:

Anthropic's requested injunction has been granted. During this week's hearing, Judge Lin cited an amicus brief that used the term “attempted corporate murder.” She said, “I don’t know if it’s ‘murder,’ but it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If you’ve got strong creative instincts & can stay true to a character's voice throughout a scene, this job listing wants you. The catch: You wouldn’t be performing in a theatre or film studio. You’d be using your talents to train leading AI models. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

watch me try to make my way through 3 different job interviews conducted by AI bots

Anthropic is launching a new think tank combining 3 prominent research teams & shaking up its C-suite, days after its US gov lawsuit. “It’s never dull working in AI here at Anthropic," co-founder Jack Clark told me. "There’s always something going on..." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

NEW w/ @haydenfield.bsky.social : Nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google — including Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and Gemini lead — have filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Today, Anthropic challenged its supply chain risk designation in court. If you want to know the inside story on how we got here ⬇️

The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster

Last month, Anthropic told @haydenfield.bsky.social "Claude, and other AI models, are a new kind of entity altogether." Anthropic is "investigating" "questions about potential ... consciousness ... but we remain deeply uncertain about these topics." Great way to keep up the hype!

Anthropic's official line is that Claude is not "alive" but may be "conscious" which @haydenfield.bsky.social correctly called "highly suggestive uncertainty" www.theverge.com/report/88376...

WTF is happening between Anthropic and the Pentagon? @theverge.com's @haydenfield.bsky.social joins @eggerdc.bsky.social on Bulwark Takes to chat it over.

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge? The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

“When I joined the tech industry, I thought tech was about making people’s lives easier,” an Amazon Web Services employee told The Verge, “but now it seems like it’s all about making it easier to surveil and deport and kill people.”

Anthropic has refused to agree to the Pentagon’s demand to allow ‘any lawful use’ of its AI.

NEW: Amid the Anthropic-Pentagon situation, all week, I've been speaking to employees at OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more companies, who have expressed similar feelings about the changing moral landscapes internally. Here's what's going on. (Gift link) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

an interesting journey

Sent @haydenfield.bsky.social to straight-up ask if Anthropic thinks Claude is alive. The answer is essentially a company inviting you to have a metaphysical crisis about whether “alive” requires flesh and blood www.theverge.com/report/88376...

Anthropic is "reinforcing ideas that have caused real harm, including some deaths by suicide among people who believe that the chatbot they’re speaking with exhibits some form of consciousness or deep empathy." - @haydenfield.bsky.social

OpenAI has a new chief people officer. Arvind KC, who was formerly Roblox’s chief people & systems officer, has also held senior roles at Google, Palantir & Meta, per OpenAI. He replaces the company’s former chief people officer, who departed in Aug '25 after <6mo in the role.

Today, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei meets with Pete Hegseth at the White House, amid intensifying negotiations over terms that would give the military carte blanche to use Anthropic's AI for lethal autonomous weapons with no human involvement. Heres a look inside those talks.

Today, Anthropic's Jack Clark announced that the company plans to majorly scale up its Societal Impacts team, making it a "load-bearing team for informing decisions Anthropic makes." I profiled that nine-person team in December. Read it here (gift link): url-shortener.me/DJT8

Former xAI employees told us that this week's restructuring followed tensions over safety and being "stuck in the catch-up phase." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

“The dissent I’ve seen is like a whisper. It’s a fear-based culture right now.” Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘ Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/NArp66x

Had a blast returning to Vox Media's Today Explained for today's show, talking about AI scheming & the OpenClaw/Moltbook of it all. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! www.vox.com/today-explai...

From August 2025: Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...

Amid an immigration crackdown, tech workers across the industry describe a culture of silence & fear—and trepidation over the type of future they’re helping build. Many also described an eerie lack of acknowledgment in meetings & quiet internal resistance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Boris Cherny often gets recognized in public. At the bar, at the airport, in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with Claude Code's creator. Since the holidays, Claude has gone viral across sectors. Can Anthropic prolong the hype with Opus 4.6? www.theverge.com/report/87430...

Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents, called Moltbook and designed to look a lot like Reddit, may face the opposite problem: getting clogged up by humans pretending to post as bots. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Had a great time on @cbsnews.com this morning chatting with @errolbarnett.bsky.social about AI agents & Moltbook.

when you break AI overview by asking about dog eyelids

There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

Here’s a transcript from my interview with Tim Cook today I asked what he’d need to see to denounce publicly something like what we’ve witnessed in Minnesota

"As I reviewed photos of protesters and tear gas in the wake of his death, I didn’t realize ... that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

a lil exclusive www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...