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2 years of reporting & writing with @RMac18, and we have one hell of a story to tell you! Our first book, CHARACTER LIMIT, is coming this September! penguinrandomhouse.com/booksā¦
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ICYMI - OpenAI says Elon Musk messaged Greg Brockman two days before trial began, gauging settlement possiblity. When Brockman replied saying they should drop their claims, Musk wrote back āBy the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be.ā (from OpenAI filing last night with court)
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The day before the 20th anniversary of the first post on Twitter, Elon Musk was found liable of misleading investors before he bought the company in 2022 for $44 billion.
Tweeting does have consequences, apparently.
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Scoop from me: Meta delays Avocado š„ after performance concerns.
The new model is better than Llama 4 but worse than other frontiers ā somewhere in between Gemini 2.5 and 3.
There is excitement about the model after Avo, named after an even larger fruit: Watermelon š
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15 Dec 2025
Iām now reporting on Apple for The New York Times.
If youāre a current or former Apple employee, or if youāve worked with Apple, letās chat! Iām at kalley.57 on Signal and kalley.huang@nytimes.com.
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5 Dec 2025
Breaking News: The EU fined X $140 million for violating rules governing the transparency of online platforms. nyti.ms/4oATzSo
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8 Oct 2025
I wrote about xAI's waifus and talked to people who are sexting the chatbots, falling in love, and even using them to journal because they're eager to see Musk succeed in the A.I. field: nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technā¦
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18 Sep 2025
"Daddy is very much home." Our story looks inside xAI this summer, as Elon Musk returned from government. This week, employees were told Grok has 64 million MAUs and that Musk is serious about building a Microsoft competitor called Macrohard nytimes.com/2025/09/18/technā¦
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12 Sep 2025
Today with @Haleaziz: Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn't violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway. nytimes.com/2025/09/12/businā¦
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2 Sep 2025
We experimented with Grok to see how its politics shifted over time and found that, on some issues, it was successfully shifted to mirror Musk's politics. But on some social issues, Grok remained stubbornly left-leaning, frustrating Musk & his fans: nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technā¦
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25 Jul 2025
How Musk and other Trump allies have used the courts to try to silence a liberal group that has criticized them and the president. So far it has worked: The group has pared back public statements and may have to shut down. @kenvogel @kateconger @ryanmac nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poā¦
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7 Jul 2025
This is weird: Grok blamed DOGE cuts for deaths in the Texas floods, writing, "Facts over feelings." Called out by Musk fans, it doubled down: "Facts aren't woke; they're just facts." Then it backtracked and claimed screenshots of the posts were fake (they're not).
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12 Jun 2025
scoop: the FTC is in talks to approve a huge advertising merger on the eve of Cannes. The catch? It could prohibit the company from withholding ad spending based on political considerations. w/Ā @laurenshirsch, @kateconger and @tiffkhsu
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3 Jun 2025
The @FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising & advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers on X & several conservative social media platforms, @kateconger & @tiffkhsu report. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technā¦
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18 Mar 2025
NEW: Starlink is now operating as a WiFi service across the WH campus, per people briefed. Musk is said to have donated the service to the government. It is said to be working through existing fiber cables at a data center miles away from WH. nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/poā¦
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10 Jan 2025
NEW: inside Mark Zuckerbergās six-week sprint to remake Meta for the Trump Era
w @sheeraf @kateconger
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14 Nov 2024
This week on INSIDE THE HIVE: @kateconger and @nickbilton examine the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance and whether it will last... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcasā¦
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11 Oct 2024
Iām sure weāll get a Twitter Files release soon on these backroom conversations in which officials pressured X to censor content nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/poā¦
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4 Oct 2024
RT @MarkRuffalo: .@elonmusk, you must have known what was going onā¦ š± why didnāt you say something? Smoke Mind Virus šØš¤Ŗš¦
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