Hayden has been on the AI beat for six years, and her reporting has appeared in The Verge, CNBC, Morning Brew, MIT Technology Review, WIRED UK, Protocol (the Politico offshoot), Digital Trends, Fortune, Atlanta Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and more. Below is a small selection of pieces.
Features & Longform
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AI warfare is already here (The Verge)
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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze (The Verge)
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How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance (The Verge)
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We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots (The Verge)
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Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon (The Verge)
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It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything (The Verge)
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Feeding the machine (The Verge)
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Google's healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don't notice? (The Verge)
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The troubling legacy of a biased data set (OneZero)
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Inside the secret world of fake IDs (Medium)
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If business is booming, why is Main Street America still hurting? (Entrepreneur Magazine)
Industry Trends
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Sam Altman didn't need another lawsuit (The Verge)
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Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data (The Verge)
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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they're ready to fight (The Verge)
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If Google can't make AI agents useful, maybe no one can (The Verge)
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Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people (The Verge)
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John Ternus’ first big problem is AI (The Verge)
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The vibes are off at OpenAI (The Verge)
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Why OpenAI killed Sora (The Verge)
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Does Anthropic think Claude is alive? Define ‘alive’ (The Verge)
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Claude has been having a moment — can it keep it up? (The Verge)
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Humans are infiltrating the social network for AI bots (The Verge)
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Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable (The Verge)
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AI Alliance universities and colleges fund ad campaign against RAISE Act (The Verge)
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The great AGI rebrand (The Verge)
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AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key (The Verge)
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The AI industry earnings bubble and FOMO hype (The Verge)
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OpenAI's for-profit restructuring and the AGI wars (The Verge)
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The hunger strike to end AI (The Verge)
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Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's super PAC aims to kneecap AI rivals in California (The Verge)
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Meta, Google, and OpenAI's shifting approaches to artificial intelligence safety (CNBC)
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Inside Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind's AI life sciences spinoff (CNBC)
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The superintelligence lab AI poaching wars (The Verge)
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Congress pushes back on state AI law bans (The Verge)
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OpenAI's Miles Brundage on AGI readiness (CNBC)
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After ChatGPT and the rise of chatbots, investors pour into AI agents (CNBC)
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AI engineers face burnout as rat race to stay competitive hits tech (CNBC)
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FOMO drives tech heavyweights to invest billions in generative AI (CNBC)
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Generative AI is shaking up online dating with flirty chatbots (CNBC)
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AI might be reading your Slack and Teams messages using tech from Aware (CNBC)
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Tech's new AI game plan: Spend money to make money (CNBC)
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One year after promising to double AI ethics team, Google is light on details (Morning Brew)
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Meet the man building the future of quantum for IBM, qubit by qubit (Morning Brew)
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How lawyers embraced robots (Morning Brew)
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Inside Amazon's pandemic hiring race (MIT Technology Review)
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Uber's coronavirus chaos (WIRED UK)
Selected Scoops & Reporting on Internal Documents
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Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months (The Verge)
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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 (The Verge)
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Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic (The Verge)
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These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came (The Verge)
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Columbia University tries using AI to cool off student tensions (The Verge)
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OpenAI employees thwarted in efforts to donate equity in AI startup (CNBC)
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Scale AI announces multimillion-dollar defense and military deal (CNBC)
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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (The Verge)
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OpenAI insider stock sales are raising concern among ex-employees (CNBC)
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Humane, the startup behind the AI Pin, in talks with HP and telecoms to sell (CNBC)
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Twitch ends contracts for its Safety Advisory Council (CNBC)
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OpenAI sends internal memo releasing former employees from non-disparagement agreements (CNBC)
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AI firm Appen loses more executives months after Alphabet cut ties (CNBC)
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Inside OpenAI's superalignment team shakeup with Sutskever and Leike (CNBC)
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IBM is slashing jobs in marketing and communications (CNBC)
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Microsoft engineer warns company’s AI tool creates violent, sexual images, ignores copyrights (CNBC) (Impact)
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GM Cruise probe finds poor leadership at center of incident response (CNBC)
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GM's Cruise lays off contractors after suspending self-driving cars (CNBC)
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Inside the turmoil at Appen, the former AI darling that’s reeling from executive exits, big losses (CNBC)
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A new tool meant to reduce bias in investing could exacerbate it, experts say (Morning Brew)
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How Airbnb failed its own anti-discrimination team—and let racial disparities slip through the cracks (Morning Brew)
Tech Worker Activism
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Amazon faces AECJ disciplinary action over Seattle data center moratorium (The Verge)
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Amazon employees push for Seattle data center moratorium (The Verge)
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Tech workers file amicus brief in Anthropic Pentagon lawsuit (The Verge)
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Tech workers' ICE resistance and the fight against Clearview AI (The Verge)
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Microsoft emails reveal internal tensions over Gaza and Palestine (CNBC)
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Microsoft fires engineers who protested during anniversary celebration (CNBC)
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Microsoft 50th birthday party interrupted by employees protesting AI use (CNBC)
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Google terminates 28 employees after series of protests (CNBC)
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Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in Google Cloud CEO's office (CNBC)
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Google and Amazon face new protests over contract with Israeli government and military (Morning Brew)
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AI ethics experts react to Google doubling embattled ethics team (Morning Brew)
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The underground communities organizing inside Amazon and Google (Digital Trends)
Scene Reports