Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 26/08/2026"Inside OpenAI's Reboot" is based on interviews with more than 20 company leaders, investors, customers, and rivals, as well as events I witnessed at OpenAI HQ over a 2-week period in August For the latest cover of TIME: time.com/article/2026... 392
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 23/06/2026Brought Sources Live to Cannes Lions with Yahoo and Jim Lanzone, Tyler Denk, Casey Lewis, CatGPT and many more awesome folks 050
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 13/03/2026I spoke with Anthropic employees in the midst of the company's fight with the Trump administration and Claude hitting the top of the App Store sources.news/p/my-day-ins... 040
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 06/03/2026Sources: OpenAI is pausing the rollout of ChatGPT Adult Mode More in today's newsletter sources.news/p/liz-reid-g... 2150
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/02/2026Sources: Snap’s SVP of Specs, who had been leading the hardware effort for six years, is out after a “blow-up” with CEO Evan Spiegel about the company’s strategy sources.news/p/figmas-ans... 1150
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 31/12/2025Also, I had fun looking back at what Groq's founder told me on the day that Google reverse-acquired Character last summer 050
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 24/10/2025This week on ACCESS YouTube: www.youtube.com/@accesspod Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3p1KZvk... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... 020
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 24/10/2025Google is getting back into AR glasses with Gemini / Android XR We had the head of Android on the pod this week, and I wanted to know what Google learned from the original Glass launch in 2013 4100
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 25/09/2025We've got the one and only @zoink.bsky.social on the second episode of ACCESS! We discuss: - Figma's IPO and what's next - MCP / how he's thinking about AI - The future of design Out everywhere you can get podcasts 2201
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 20/09/2025Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-goog... 33918
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 16/09/2025I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social. The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday. 146013
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/07/2025a lil scoop in today's newsletter: Shane Smith tried to buy Substack 1184
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21/06/2025I interviewed the VP of glasses at Meta, which just announced a new design with Oakley. We discussed the first meeting he had with new AI chief Alexandr Wang, how people are using the Meta Ray-Bans, the current status of AR glasses, and more. www.theverge.com/command-line... 281
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 14/06/2025Why is Zuck spending so much to reboot his AI efforts? Llama has fallen so far behind that Meta product teams have discussed using outside models www.theverge.com/command-line... 1162
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21/05/2025Sergey Brin just crashed an onstage talk at Google I/O with Demis Hassabis predicted AGI will come sooner than Demis onstage, said “I can ask for it. He needs to deliver it” should people use AI in interviews? “I never interviewed at all. I feel it would be critical for me to judge people” 251
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/05/2025Elon Musk chatting with Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build today (Grok coming to Azure) a few min after Sam Altman says a lot about the state of the MSFT/OAI relationship www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkv... 3132
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/05/2025Elon Musk chatting with Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build today (Grok coming to Azure) a few min after Sam Altman says a lot about the state of the MSFT/OAI relationship www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkv... 040
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 13/05/2025I’m at an Airbnb event in LA where Brian Chesky is announcing a reboot of Experiences and a new Services offering (get a private chef, trainer, etc. on demand) Spotted in the audience: Jony Ive, Garry Tan, Kevin Hart, Kevin Costner, Chance the Rapper 4100
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 23/04/2025amazing answer from the founder of Discord when asked why he is stepping down ahead of an IPO venturebeat.com/games/why-di... 2342
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 14/04/2025To poke holes in the FTC's market definition, Meta shared data illustrating how its app usage surged when TikTok was briefly offline due to the US ban. Yet, TikTok is not a "competitor" for the purpose of this case. It's strange. 1134
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 27/03/2025After Musk pinged Huffman about stuff he wanted taken down, some Reddit moderators got wind and started chatting… 2524
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 15/03/2025interesting responses from Anthropic CPO @mikekrieger.bsky.social on differentiating from OpenAI www.theverge.com/command-line... 1160
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 10/03/2025Kamala Harris is giving her first public interview since the election at HumanX, a new AI conference, in Vegas right now 6394
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 08/03/2025some new details on Meta’s standalone AI app and llama 4 in yesterday’s newsletter www.theverge.com/command-line... 1120
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 28/02/2025also in this week's newsletter: Gov. Newsom had an awkward interaction with a bunch of tech investors this week in LA www.theverge.com/command-line... 1130
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 28/02/2025also: Meta's CTO addressed the whole company this week about firing leakers after I scooped the news. here are the, uh, leaked comments: 3281
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 14/02/2025and then I do a vibe check on Meta, where a lot of employees are quite shocked at how this week's "low-performer" layoffs have been handled full newsletter here, which also goes out to the inboxes of Verge subscribers each week: www.theverge.com/command-line... 0120
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 14/02/2025then I go inside Google, where execs dodged (AI-summarized) employee questions about rolling back DEI and making AI weapons 170
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/01/2025TikTok is telling advertisers today that the app is coming online for the "majority" of US users (not all) and to expect "service instability" Sounds like the tech stack is broken still, memo notes there will be restrictions on certain kinds ad campaigns www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24... 1328
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 19/01/2025no more plea to Trump in TikTok’s in-app offline message this morning he said the US should own 50% of the app meanwhile, some folks are able to access via the website? disaster 4262
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 10/12/2024saw Interstellar in IMAX last night and, a decade later, some lines were cornier than I remembered but man that shit still slaps 3580
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 06/12/2024Also: I have the scoop on a big leadership shakeup at Samsung Electronics North America, which just got a new CEO 1132
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 25/05/2023after that Elon / Ron DeSantis Twitter Space David Sacks be like 081
