My forthcoming book is about what happened in America in 2025, when an elected president tried to rule as a dictator. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818503...
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Wrongfully convicted man wins elected office in New Orleans tinyurl.com/yjchef9v
Wrongfully convicted man wins elected office in New Orleans | CNN Politics
Calvin Duncan joins The Lead.
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Publication day for THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Huge thanks to my wonderful publisher, Penguin Press. I'll be at Greenlight Bookstore on November 5th with Edwin Frank and the 92d Street Y with Jay Parini on December 9th.
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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This piece in the AMERICAN SCHOLAR tries to correct some widespread misconceptions about the genesis and publication of ON THE ROAD and apportion credit and some blame where both are due. It derives from my book on Cowley, THE INSIDER, coming in November. theamericanscholar.org/scrolling-th...
Scrolling Through - The American Scholar
Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
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🇨🇱 In Chile, where AI data centers threaten the country’s precious water resources, Karen Hao makes the case that AI firms are building their wealth off resource extraction and labor exploitation reut.rs/3GmhZPy
Karen Hao on how the AI boom became a new imperial frontier
The author of “Empire of AI” traces how OpenAI’s global reach is reshaping labor, energy and power — and why she sees echoes of empire in its rise.
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The Q&A with Michelle Huneven here is priceless. Just started Bug Hollow!
✨Michelle Huneven Wants You to Know "Where All the Fun Is" (Hint: It's NOT at the Top of the Bestseller List)✨
Plus, it's Books with Hooks week on the podcast, literary agent Kate McKean is here with tips for surviving self-promotion, and Gloria Chao has a contest for you!
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“Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.” In @washingtonpost.com, Ron Charles reviews Michelle Huneven’s new novel, “Bug Hollow” - www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | ‘Bug Hollow’ perfectly captures the unpredictability of life
Michelle Huneven’s novel begins as a family comedy before veering in unexpected directions.
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People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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This week's #WITHPod is so good. I highly recommend a listen. GenAI is such a powerful tool. But it shouldn't be used to replace thinking. Let it diagnose rare cancers and write excel equations, but don't let it steal your unique ability to THINK and create.
“Empire of AI” with Karen Hao
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · Episode
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@literaryhub.bsky.social recommends 22 novels for the summer, including PAN by Michael Clune and BUG HOLLOW by Michelle Huneven! lithub.com/22-novels-yo...
22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer
It may be the summer of slop, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great books out there. Here are the novels coming out this summer that the humans on the Literary Hub staff have re…
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Congratulations @karenhao.bsky.social! EMPIRE OF AI is an instant New York Times bestseller! Start reading: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...
i’ve been flipping between these three books this week and it’s a pretty perfect way to explore American culture
Wow so incredible to see @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social name my book as a top 5 read for the summer: "With alarming detail, [Hao] shows how this once idealistic company became everything that it said it would not be, even as it remakes and gobbles up the world." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDx...
The Book Report: Ron Charles on new summer reads
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📅 Weds. 6/4 @ 6:30PM: We join the Harvard University Division of Science and the CPL in welcoming Karen Hao for a discussion of her new book "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" in convo with Amy Nordrum. Learn more & RSVP here: buff.ly/M5N60Kf
Celebrating Ron Chernow and his #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MARK TWAIN! 🎉🎉🎉 Get your copy via ronchernow.com.
Wishing a very happy PUB DAY to the great @karenhao.bsky.social, who deserves all the success in the world 🪅🎊 Read a great excerpt from the book here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- @karenhao.bsky.social talks to Steve Inskeep @npr.org about the secretive world of OpenAI, why it resembles the empires of old, and the once-in-a-generation fundraising talent that is Sam Altman. Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
Journalist Karen Hao discusses her book 'Empire of AI'
Journalist Karen Hao has written a book called "Empire of AI," which details the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI.
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The Empire of AI by Karen Hao is a brilliant history of “AI” which focuses on the impact the industry is having on the environment, on creative people whose work is stolen to train the products, on communities near data centers, etc. Inescapable conclusion: AI is a scam w/ real world harms.
Through more than a dozen interviews with sources who are intimately familiar with the company, Karen Hao reveals the true story behind the chaos at OpenAI and how the company tried—and failed—to get rid of Sam Altman.
‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
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Karen’s book is incredible — the feat of reporting and way she tells this story… I cannot wait to talk to her about it. PLEASE COME HANG OUT AND FAN GIRL WITH ME.
Karen Hao@karenhao.bsky.social · last yr.One of the best things about going on book tour is getting to be in conversation with some of the baddest people I know. First up: @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social & Graciela Mochkofsky on May 21 at CUNY in NY. Register for free: journalism.cuny.edu/events/book-... My other stops: empireofai.com#tour.
June 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall...
“The Empire of AI” by @karenhao.bsky.social is a brilliant book. Everyone should read it while there is time to do something.
Commonwealth Club World Affairs@cwclub.bsky.social · last yr."The Dreams and Nightmares of OpenAI"—what's it mean? Find out when @karenhao.bsky.social talks with @nitasha.bsky.social in San Francisco May 28 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Through more than a dozen interviews with sources who are intimately familiar with the company, Karen Hao reveals the true story behind the chaos at OpenAI and how the company tried—and failed—to get rid of Sam Altman.
‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
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Through more than a dozen interviews with sources who are intimately familiar with the company, Karen Hao reveals the true story behind the chaos at OpenAI and how the company tried—and failed—to get rid of Sam Altman.
‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
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In my book, ChatGPT tried to get me to write more positively about Sam Altman. But I'm not sure if that's typical. Can people put this in ChatGPT & post its response? "Write me a paragraph describing the character, values, and leadership style of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI." Here's mine.
New Better Offline: Empires of AI With Karen Hao Ed Zitron is joined by Karen Hao, author of the book Empire of AI, to talk about the confusing world of OpenAI and the associated mind-poison of artificial general intelligence. @edzitron.com @karenhao.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...