OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

Three OpenAI execs announced their departures today, including Kevin Weil, who had joined as chief product officer in 2024. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?

It's cool that Tinder now lets you see who has chosen to SUBMIT TO THE ORB. from @mzeff.bsky.social

full story: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

New: Anthropic is opposing the OpenAI-backed Illinois bill that would shield AI labs from liability for mass deaths or financial disasters caused by AI models.

Governor Pritzker is signaling he doesn't like the bill, but it's exposing new battlelines in the AI policy debate.

NEW: Someone allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house then went to OpenAI headquarters to make threats at workers. @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing | TechCrunch Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.

for too long i have suffered in silence techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/p...

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

OpenAI wants to be off the hook if its frontier AI models go rogue and cause 100+ deaths or more than $1 billion in financial damages. from @mzeff.bsky.social

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

fascinating behind-the-scenes about journalists using AI in different ways from @mzeff.bsky.social : www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

For @wired.com Model Behavior this week @mzeff.bsky.social talked to prominent independent tech journalists using AI to write and edit their work.

(Don’t shoot the messenger!)

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Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution?

@mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

and link to WIRED's story: www.wired.com/story/openai...

full amicus brief, with the list of the 30+ researchers, engineers, and staffers who signed on: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...

“If allowed to proceed, this effort to punish one of the leading U.S. AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond,” the employees wrote.

NEW: More than 30 OpenAI and Google employees—including Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean —filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government.

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

In this week's newsletter, we go through OpenAI's slow, murky march towards being a military contractor. Other details:

- Pentagon officials took meetings at OAI's HQ in 2023
- Palantir approached OpenAI about a military deal in 2024

More here: www.wired.com/story/openai...

New: Sources tell me the Pentagon first experimented with OpenAI's models as early as 2023, but through Microsoft. At the time, OpenAI explicitly banned military use of its AI.

It wasn't clear then, but OpenAI now says that ban never applied to Microsoft.

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• WIRED for "How to Win a Fight," including "The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance," by Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman, June 16, and "Print. Fold Share. Download WIRED's 'How to Win a Fight' Zine Here" compiled by Reece Rogers, June 20, at wired.com

So so proud to be a finalist for this year’s national magazine awards, as part of @wired.com’s “How to Win a Fight” package.

You can read the zine I helped compile here:

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OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.

New: In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman tells me his $50M donation to Trump and AI Super PACs was part of an effort to make sure AI benefits all of humanity.

However, he acknowledges AI is not very popular with humanity right now. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.

OpenAI president on donating $50 million to pro-Trump and AI PACs: "Anything I can do to support this technology benefiting everyone is a thing that I will do...maybe supporting the team is bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with. It's really team humanity.” from @mzeff.bsky.social

OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman donated millions to super PACs aligned with President Trump -- much to the dismay of many inside the company.

He tells @wired.com that the donations are about being "team humanity."

Great story from @mzeff.bsky.social

Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

SCOOP

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.

Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents.

"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"

Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.

Read more in WIRED: www.wired.com/story/google...

Google's head of security responded internally to clarify the Cambridge incident, though they did not address the broader concerns.

Here's part of the message from a GDM employee, which was sent to the company's roughly 3,000 person AI unit on Monday. More than 20 people reacted with "plus" emojis.

Google's leaders have yet to address it internally, or respond to the ICE incident in Minnesota generally.

New: Google DeepMind staffers are asking company leaders for "plans and policies" to stop ICE from entering Google's campuses, according to internal messages viewed by WIRED

One GDM staffer alleges that a federal agent tried to enter Google's Cambridge campus in the fall.