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Ina Fried
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Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios. Huge fan of the sportsball. Also Lego. She/her

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New @axios from Milan Olympics:

IOC disqualifies Ukrainian athlete over helmet honoring war dead
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
New from @axios: Swedish skier Elis Lundholm becomes the first transgender Winter Olympian. Lundholm who uses male pronouns and was assigned female at birth competes in women’s moguls.
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
New @axios with @ashleyrgold.bsky.social Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE even as they and their companies remain silent.
January 26, 2026 at 1:34 PM
About to go live from Davos on @npr.org Here & Now talking about ads in ChatGPT
January 19, 2026 at 5:51 PM
New @axios.com: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Health, letting users bring in data from electronic health records, apple health and myfitnesspal.
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the pitfalls of giving human characteristics to AI chatbots.
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Scoop: Mattel's collaboration with @OpenAI won't emerge this year.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Exclusive: OpenAI expects models will soon hit the “high” level of cybersecurity risk by AI can act longer autonomously.
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Former slack CEO Denise Dresser joining OpenAI as chief revenue officer openai.com/index/openai...
OpenAI appoints Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer
Expanding our leadership to scale the fastest-growing business platform in history.
openai.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about how two things can be true

1) there is an AI bubble
2) AI is going to be a transformational moment perhaps bigger than the internet or smartphones
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Thinking about this @inafried.bsky.social @danprimack.bsky.social piece as Gemini takes the top spot on the App Store…
Google, the sleeping AI giant, awakens
Google is proving that it hasn't lost its AI edge.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
The move is the latest in a series of deals that sees all the big players partnering with one another.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about Google’s AI resurgence and its potential role as Apple looks to revamp Siri.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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AI and automation are transforming the future of work faster than ever. @axios.com chief technology correspondent @inafried.bsky.social explains how soon we’ll feel the impact.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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We have tech companies (Amazon, Salesforce, Chegg, Meta....) cutting thousands of jobs because AI is getting more efficient.

We also now have THREE AI-related tech companies ($NVDA, $MSFT, $AAPL) worth $4 trillion dollars each.
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New @axios: @sama says OpenAI’s current infrastructure commitments total about $1.4 trillion. Eventually hopes to be cranking out a gigawatt per week at a cost of $20 billion per week.
OpenAI's goal: $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spending
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.
www.axios.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about how AI deepfakes are today's reality rather than something to worry about in the future.
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New @axios.com : Sal Khan to become the public face of TED Conference
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about two of the latest emerging risks in AI - the ability of systems to resist shutdown and systems that are persuasive enough to get people to change their core beliefs.
September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the latest research on why AI models hallucinate.
September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Scoop: Sierra is near a $350 million funding round that values Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor’s Ai agent startup at $10 billion.
September 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the AI features on the new Google Pixel phones and what that all means for Apple ahead of the iPhone launch.
August 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office has instructed D.C.'s federal prosecutors not to seek felony charges against people carrying rifles or shotguns in the capital.
D.C.'s federal prosecutors ordered to not pursue gun possession felony charges
The policy shift comes as Trump escalated law enforcement in D.C.
www.axios.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM