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Megan Morrone

@megmorrone.bsky.social

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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.

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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hello

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Am I onstage at Berkeley discussing future regulation of open-weight AI models or asking for a miracle outside a Dead show?

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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

every day I wake up wishing we could go back to the time when AI gave people extra fingers

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jgarren.bsky.social @jgarren.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Life plan

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy Annual Wondering What You’ll Ever Do With All of Those Fireworks Photos You Took Day to all who celebrate

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“My AI agent went rogue” is an excuse you can use for everything now. you are welcome

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’ve started pronouncing Mythos “meee-those” just to be weird

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

$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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Love this investigation into the “uncanny burger”

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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.”

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

Martini with a vegetables

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My neurologist let me take photos of my MRI and my brain is super cute and doesn’t look like a computer at all.

Brain MRI

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My buzzkill buddy @willoremus.com out there fact-checking the only thing bringing us joy ⚽️

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Beautiful day to go to court

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 17/02/2026

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Local @axios.com news you can USE ☃️ www.axios.com/local/denver...

Why you should not eat snow

Think about the snowflake you cut in kindergarten, the one with all the different edges and angles.

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Russell Contreras @russcontreras.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

DM me about your AI job anxiety. I'm less empathetic than ChatGPT and it might be used in a story with your permission. So email if you're OK with that: megan.morrone@axios.com

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Axios @axios.com · 21/07/2025

NEW data first reported by Axios: • ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, per OpenAI • More than 330M of those are in US • The free version of ChatGPT is used by the vast majority of the platform's 500m weekly active users

Altman plans D.C. push to "democratize" AI economic benefits

Altman wants to continue driving debate over the effect AI will have on jobs.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Agents. Agents. Agents. Agents. ChatGPT Agent is out today. OpenAI says it can start and finish complex web and computing tasks without you holding its hand. I’ll be testing it soon. In the meantime, here’s my Axios piece with the details: www.axios.com/2025/07/17/c...

New ChatGPT Agent promises to do more for you

OpenAI says its new tool can take over more of your tasks from start to finish.

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Sam Sabin @samsabin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

CISA spent years building out its role (and brand!) as the country's go-to partner on cyber issues. piece by piece, that work is being dismantled as workforce reductions and budget cuts hit the agency. more from today's @axios future of cyber newsletter: www.axios.com/2025/07/15/c...

The top U.S. cybersecurity agency is shrinking quickly under Trump 2.0

Companies and critical infrastructure will be more vulnerable as a result, experts warn.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

ChatGPT’s new memory feature is here. And it raises big questions. For @axios.com I talked with OpenAI's Christina Wadsworth Kaplan and Samir Ahmed about how memory works in ChatGPT and what it means to be remembered by a chatbot. www.axios.com/2025/07/11/c...

ChatGPT keeps having more memories of you

OpenAI's expanded memory feature presents thorny privacy, personalization and control dilemmas.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I am a very simple woman. All I want is for AI to do my expense reports

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New @axios.com story: Upwork data shows a rise in “vibe coders” — people using AI to code without knowing how — and demand for “generalists” who can blend AI with creative skills. www.axios.com/2025/06/30/a...

Exclusive: The rise of the AI-savvy generalist

New data from freelance platform Upwork shows how AI is shifting skills.

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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Anthropic just dropped new data on how folks are using Claude for emotional support. Bots can be comforting. But they weren’t built for therapy. Thx to @miles.land &‬ Alex Sanderford from @anthropic.com & @erictopol.bsky.social for insights. In @axios.com AI+. www.axios.com/2025/06/26/a...

Exclusive: New Anthropic report details How Claude became an emotional support bot

The research shows users grow more positive while chatting with Claude.

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Chuck McCutcheon @chuckmccutcheon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

From @megmorrone.bsky.social: Trump will attend a summit next month at Carnegie Mellon -- a big win for Sen. Dave McCormick's efforts to bring AI and energy leaders together. www.axios.com/2025/06/12/t...

Scoop: Trump to headline Sen. McCormick's AI energy summit in Pittsburgh

Trump's attendance is a win for McCormick's efforts to bring AI and energy leaders together.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here is your friendly reminder that LLMs are simply guessing at the next word. They're not designed to give you facts or to verify them. They don't "think," they infer. As far as I know, dogs still are unable to use Google when they've lost their socks.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I wrote for @axios.com about the executive “digital twin”: bots trained on a leader’s voice, writing, and decisions to scale their time and influence. With insight from @levie.bsky.social, @samliang.bsky.social @jlevitt.bsky.social and @jgcarpenter.com. Read here: www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

CEOs are scaling themselves with AI digital twins

Execs are pushing AI, but slow adoption at the top can cause workplace rifts.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

As far as I'm concerned this is the biggest news of the day www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Ferris Bueller's iconic vest hits the auction block

"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’ve been on a plane from NY to SF for the past few hours and I’ve never before wished so hard that I didn’t have wifi.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

For @axios.com, I wrote about why AI hallucinations persist. And why tech companies aren’t doing more to fix them. (Hint: accuracy is expensive, and speed sells.) 🧵 www.axios.com/2025/06/04/f...

AI's "making stuff up" problem won't go away

Companies are making some headway at limiting "hallucinations." The price is slower, costlier AI.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The ChatGPT bans are gone, but the fear and secrecy stuck around. People are using AI behind their bosses backs, and it’s a recipe for screwups. New from me at @axios.com , with insight from Gong, Coursera, @atlassian.bsky.social, mixus and @emollick.bsky.social: www.axios.com/2025/05/29/s...

Workers are hiding their use of ChatGPT and other AI

Why employees won't admit to using generative AI.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Brace yourselves: We've officially climbed out the other side of the uncanny valley. There’s something eerie and also inevitable about watching an AI-generated actor wrestle with the fact that they were created by a prompt. My latest for Axios: www.axios.com/2025/05/23/g...

Google's new Veo 3 AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips

Many seem to feel this is the moment we stop being able to tell the difference between real and AI.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I talked to experts about what we lose when we turn to prompts instead of people. Story here: www.axios.com/2025/04/25/a...

Chatbot mentoring is popular — but relying on it is risky

Workers and students who turn to AI instead of their teachers and bosses can miss out on key lessons.

Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

OpenAI's newest model "thinks" with images, per @inafried.bsky.social on @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/16/o...

OpenAI rolls out o3 and o4-mini

The new models are designed for better reasoning and visual understanding.