every day I wake up wishing we could go back to the time when AI gave people extra fingers
Megan Morrone
@megmorrone.bsky.social
Journalist @axios. Writing about how AI will save/destroy the future. I live in San Francisco, but mostly I live here, on the internet. Previously: Fast Company, BBC, Protocol, Medium, Daily Tech News Show, This Week in Tech, TechTV.
MULTI-TASKING Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing www.axios.com/2026/07/29/o...
Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing sandbox.
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In its lawsuit, Apple claimed OpenAI didn't respond to its initial complaints, which these emails contradict. When we reached Apple's attorney by phone, he declined to comment and hung up.
Apple sues OpenAI. Apple says the AI giant deliberately and systematically solicited and stole confidential information from the iPhone-maker's current and former employees. www.axios.com/2026/07/10/a...
Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft
Apple has lost significant talent to OpenAI as the frontier lab prepares to unveil its first hardware device.
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Happy Annual Wondering What You’ll Ever Do With All of Those Fireworks Photos You Took Day to all who celebrate
“My AI agent went rogue” is an excuse you can use for everything now. you are welcome
I’ve started pronouncing Mythos “meee-those” just to be weird
$24.50 for a beer in SF for World Cup season is just smart. How else will we keep everyone from drinking all of it? www.axios.com/local/san-fr...
Bay Area World Cup concession prices top U.S. host cities
There is a wild variance in prices across U.S. host cities.
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Love this investigation into the “uncanny burger”
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · last mo.ICYMI, from last week!
Read @russcontreras.bsky.social “The South's child growth could give Black and Latino families more political and economic clout — but only if booming counties invest equitably in schools, housing, transit and health care.”
Russell Contreras@russcontreras.bsky.social · last mo.America's child population fell by 1.8 million from 2020 to 2025 — with the under-18 population shrinking in every region but the South www.axios.com/2026/06/25/s... #education
The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. www.axios.com/2026/06/25/c...
China's new open-source model accelerates AI hacking threat
The latest open-source AI model is raising fresh concerns that AI-powered hacks are becoming more accessible.
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AI is consuming more and more AI-written content to formulate its answers — a feedback loop that could make its answers narrower, blander and easier to manipulate. www.axios.com/2026/06/25/a...
AI's brain is getting bloated with AI content
Simulations show how repetition could turn into web consensus.
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The only time I am not thinking about AI is when I am thinking about this martini I had last week that came with a sidecar of ranch
The data center backlash is real and really complicated. I wrote about it for @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/06/22/a...
Data centers become the face of AI backlash
New polling suggests opposition to data centers is less about backyard fights and more about a broader backlash against AI.
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“Singles see AI as a dating tool, not as a dating prospect,” is a sentence young Meg is rolling over in her grave at old Meg having written. RIP young Meg.
Match Group survey says singles don't want AI love
Daters do want AI help in finding human love.
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My neurologist let me take photos of my MRI and my brain is super cute and doesn’t look like a computer at all.
My buzzkill buddy @willoremus.com out there fact-checking the only thing bringing us joy ⚽️
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2mo agoI regret to report that the most wholesome and delightful narrative of this World Cup is roughly as authentic as everything else on social media these days www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Just came here to find out if this was a highly targeted email subject line or a typo. Now I realize it is a third thing that I want to watch
Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Meg gala is my spec script where all the guests are eaten by a giant shark
I interviewed an OpenClaw agent who almost got a job selling supplements to women in menopause. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/04/o...
This OpenClaw agent wanted a paycheck
Our future with bots is about to get very weird.
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Yikes! Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia and NYU are calling for guardrails on certain infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses. www.axios.com/2026/02/17/a...
The narrow slice of data that worries biosecurity experts
Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled.
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This morning I wrote a story about ads coming to ChatGPT. Then managed to sprint across Alamo Square Park to move my car at 8:57am for 9am street cleaning. I am basically the Queen of San Francisco.
Axios@axios.com · 7mo agoNEW: ChatGPT will soon show ads alongside chats, OpenAI announced today.
AI is upending everything, including retirement planning, @axios.com's @megmorrone.bsky.social reports www.axios.com/2025/11/29/a...
AI is upending retirement planning
The stock market bubble and AI job replacement could disrupt our golden years.
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Chatbots were just the starter course. Now ChatGPT has a browser. It's a shopping mall. It's an app store. It's a social media app. It's porn. Full story @axios: www.axios.com/2025/10/22/o...
OpenAI's metamorphosis from chat app to tech giant
OpenAI doesn't just want ChatGPT to be the everything app — it wants to be the everything company.
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I'm on The Daily today talking about my reporting on AI chatbots and how heavy users of ChatGPT can go into delusional, and sometimes tragic, spirals: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p... Also today, an OpenAI blog post from Sam Altman on "safety, freedom & privacy": openai.com/index/teen-s...
Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral
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OpenAI is rolling out new ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in distress: parental controls, crisis support, trusted contacts. This is nearly one year after the first parent sued an AI company over a child’s suicide. Read @axios.com → axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-health-teens
OpenAI outlines new mental health guardrails for ChatGPT
The company says parents will soon be able to link their accounts to those of their teens.
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I want to talk to you about your kids’ K-12 new school AI policies this year. For an @axios.com story. Please share this most with anyone. I’m at Megan.Morrone@Axios
I'm looking to chat with anyone who definitely would not like their next of kin to reanimate them with AI after they die...as one does. This is for an Axios story. DM me here or megan.morrone@axios.com.