Hayden Field
@haydenfield
Senior AI reporter at The Verge. 6 years covering the AI industry's power dynamics, societal implications & the AI arms race. Previously: CNBC, Morning Brew, Protocol, etc. DM me off the record on Signal: haydenfield.11
If you wanted to see the trophy that Dario Amodei and David Luan gave Josh Achiam in 2018, after he sparred with Elon Musk at an all-hands Q&A (when Musk was departing the OpenAI board, and Achiam expressed his concerns that Musk was "racing towards AGI" at any cost)... Here.
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.
Had a great time on @cbsnews.com this morning chatting with @errolbarnett.bsky.social about AI agents & Moltbook.
glitch in the matrix: walking past this bar while walking from the OpenAI Codex briefing to the Codex happy hour
Big day for running into my favorite reporter friends! Had a great time on the AI reporting panel with Forbes' Rashi Shrivastava & TechCrunch's Rebecca Bellan, moderated by Tech:NYC's Julie Samuels at Haymaker's Media Summit yesterday, ahead of Alex Heath's Sources launch event.
don't call don't text, i'm rereading the lawyer-to-lawyer drama in the ilya deposition
Had a blast as a guest on Vox's Today Explained podcast yesterday (which I found out, from college friends texting me, that you can also hear on NPR in your car)! Thanks for having me on to chat about AI-generated video. www.vox.com/today-explai...
Today I'm on the ground at OpenAI's annual event, DevDay. The vibes are as follows: -Keynote by Sam Altman -Media Q&A with execs like Greg Brockman & Brad Lightcap -Developer state of the union -Fireside chat between Altman and famed former Apple designer Jony Ive
Had a blast on CBS News Los Angeles this morning! We talked about GPT-5, its strengths & weaknesses, the backlash over OpenAI's removal of the previous model and what's next for the industry.
back at it after 2 weeks in croatia, bosnia + herzegovina, montenegro and slovenia! call me beep me if you wanna reach me (aka Signal me: haydenfield.11)
honored to be included in @davidpierce.xyz's newsletter this week 🥹 www.theverge.com/installer-ne...
had a great time on a NY Tech Week panel yesterday about AI + the supply chain with @mariaaspan.bsky.social & @miyadavid.bsky.social ✨