Editor in chief @techreview. Formerly BuzzFeed News, formerly WIRED. Pro-California. Hella Frisco. Not super active on this site. Signal me: @mat.911
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
May 19
The newspaper laid off my entire video department of award-winning journalists so @PostOpinions could make the smarmiest, shittiest engagement slop imaginable.
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
May 19
The Android XR sunglasses are pretty cute. I'm surprised they went with such a feminine design, especially given how much more skeptical of AI women seem to be in general.
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
May 19
So this is actually a pretty positive development re: online trust and misinformation.
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May 19
One development I really did find interesting: OpenAI, Eleven Labs, and others are taking up Google's SynthID—its watermark technology for AI-generated content. SynthID will only be effective if it's widely adopted; otherwise, people will just switch to other tools to avoid it.
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
May 19
I'm @ Google I/O in sunny Mountain View today, and I'll be sharing my thoughts here throughout the day. We're just over halfway through the keynote now, and one thing is already pretty obvious—Google isn't coming for Anthropic and OpenAI's shared agentic coding crown anytime soon
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May 11
"What was the technology like at that point?" Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers asks Sutskever, in a rare interjection, showing genuine curiosity.
Comparing AI in 2018 to now, "it was like the difference between an ant and a cat," says Sutskever. "It's a big difference."
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May 11
Ilya Sutskever and the rest of the OpenAI board briefly fired Sam Altman as CEO in 2023. “This kind of environment, where the executives [don’t] exactly have the correct information, makes the environment not conducive to attaining any difficult, grand goal,” such as “safe AGI," says Sutskever, reflecting on the event. He thought about firing Altman for a year before doing so.
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May 11
Day 9 of Musk v. Altman trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI chief scientist, and Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, will testify.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) at @techreview
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
May 6
When asked if Sam Altman was not candid with her by fall of 2023, Mira Murati takes a long pause, sighs, and says, "Not always."
“I had an incredibly hard job to do in an organization that was very complex, and I was asking Sam to lead and lead with clarity," she says.
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May 6
Look, look, look, I'm sorry. Look. I don't do the best job of promoting my own work. So, here I am. Posting.
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May 6
I wrote this piece on AI Malaise. And I think it's good! Or maybe not. Maybe you will hate it, like licorice. But it's distinctly un-AI. (I hope.)
technologyreview.com/2026/04…
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I also wrote this piece, a while ago now, on data centers. And it is also a thing that I hope readddddddds like something a human being wrote. And moreover it's just gotten to be more true and more true and more true.
technologyreview.com/2026/01…
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May 6
Shivon Zilis describes her complicated relationship with Elon Musk. Before 2020, "there had been kind of a one-off at the offsite," she says, describing it as romantic. “Then we were friends and eventually colleagues,” she says.
Later, when she wanted to be a mom, "Elon had made the offer around that time [to be a sperm donor] … and I accepted," she says.
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May 4
Stuart Russell testifies during cross-examination that he's getting paid $235,000 by Elon Musk to testify about AI safety in this trial. He says that will make up 20% of his annual income.
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May 4
Day 5 of Musk v. Altman trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Stuart Russell, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, will testify about AI safety. OpenAI president Greg Brockman will also testify.
I'm a journalist (and lawyer) reporting on the trial for @techreview.
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
Apr 30
"That's not a leading question, that's a leading answer," says Musk to OpenAI's lawyer during cross-examination.
"You're not a lawyer," says Judge Gonzalez.
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Apr 30
Day 4 of Musk v. Altman trial in Oakland federal courthouse!
Elon Musk continues to get cross-examined by OpenAI’s lawyer William Savitt, who once represented Tesla (and Twitter in its battle against Elon Musk). Elon will then be cross-examined by Microsoft’s lawyer and then direct-examined by his own lawyer Steven Molo.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering the trial for @techreview.
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
Apr 28
to my fellow bay area residents visiting cities other than san francisco:
if you could try not to tweet like the smoke aliens from Arrival first encountering humanity after you go to exotic places like "new york," i would really appreciate it
this reflects on me as well
Apr 27
NYC observations after spending last week there
• people are actually outside touching grass (or cement 😅)
• very few AI ads or billboards around
• even cafes i went to - very few screens with claude code or cursor or some coding tool
• people are way more open to socializing. everyone is willing to strike up a conversation (not about AI agents)
• the energy is electric - everyone’s moving with purpose.
• found a way to talk to folks without mentioning AI
• way more artists, and non traditional creators. Met an actual physical product designer which was cool.
it’s genuinely refreshing to remember there’s a whole world outside the feed
been traveling the last few days and the SF tech bubble makes it easy to forget how alive real cities feel.
sorry SF, you’re still home… but perspective is healthy 🤷♂️
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
Apr 29
In opening statement yesterday, OpenAI's lawyer argued that Elon was suing OpenAI to give his own AI company xAI, which makes the chatbot Grok, an edge. Elon says "xAI has a very small market share" and that al though it is "technically a competitor," it is "much much smaller than OpenAI."
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Apr 29
Day 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial in Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk continues to testify, represented by his lawyer Steven Molo. US District Judge Yyvonne Gonzalez Rogers is presiding over the case.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering the trial for @techreview.
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