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Kylie Robison
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writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111
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We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can!

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Donate to Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers, organized by Victoria Song
On Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about … Victoria Song needs your support for Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers
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January 28, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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In this week's Core Memory podcast, we chat with Jerry Tworek, the former VP of RL at OpenAI who left this month after 7 years with the startup. Available now for subscribers, coming soon to streaming services for all. www.corememory.com/p/he-left-op...
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Jerry Tworek, former VP of Research at OpenAI and 7-year veteran of the company explains why he left.

After pioneering reasoning models and techniques like RLHF, he found OpenAI is now more focused on monetizing LLMs than researching new techniques to make AI smarter.
He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek
Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe?
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January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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In this week's Core Memory podcast, we chat with Jerry Tworek, the former VP of RL at OpenAI who left this month after 7 years with the startup. Available now for subscribers, coming soon to streaming services for all. www.corememory.com/p/he-left-op...
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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In a memo to staff announcing the news, OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo said she doesn't share any of Murati's concerns over Zoph's ethics. Zoph will report to Simo.

Initial scoop about Zoph's firing from @kylierobison.com.

Read more in WIRED: www.wired.com/story/thinki...
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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SCOOP: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at an all-hands with employees today. Soumith Chintala will be taking over as CTO.
January 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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For my debut as co-host of Core Memory's podcast, we sat down with Jasmine Sun to chat about all things peptides. We get into all the important bits: What are peptides, why are they Chinese, and how is RFK Jr. involved? www.corememory.com/p/welcome-to...
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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funny that the people who work on grok are very sad at the prospect of being forced to use it to work on grok
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Kylie Robison @kyliebytes Scoop: xAI staff had been using Anthropic’s models internally through Cursor—until Anthropic cut off the startup’s access this week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Here’s what xAI cofounder Tony Wu sent to staff on Wednesday according to a copy of the internal Slack message I viewed: “Hi team, I believe many of you have already discovered that anthropic models are not responding on cursor. According to cursor this is a new policy anthropic is enforcing for all its major competitors. This is a both bad and good news. We will get a hit on productivity, but it rly pushes us to develop our own coding product / models. We're at a time in which Al is now a critical technology for our own productivity. This coming year is rly going to be wildly exciting for all of us. The team is rapidly developing our own models / product. We will have something to share with everyone soon. In the meantime, you may still try all different kinds of models in grok build.” Anthropic declined to comment. A Cursor spokesperson directed me to Anthropic for comment. xAI did not respond to request for comment.
January 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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it's true! featuring my big face!

there’s no one I'd rather work with than Ashlee -- we share the unique and troubling ability to find the craziest stories possible. Subscribe to the gang @ corememory.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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@kylierobison.com is joining @ashleevance.bsky.social's Core Media: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/r...
Robison joins Vance's Core Media - Talking Biz News
Tech reporter Kylie Robison has joined Ashlee Vance’s Core Media, which covers science and technology, reports Oliver Darcy of Status. Robison was a senior correspondent at Wired before leaving earlie...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation.

Full statement here:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
A screenshot of part of a statement from the Trans Journalists Association regarding reporting on Charlie Kirk shooting investigation: It should also be noted that “transgender ideology” is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging to falsely equate identity with politics, which is a way to frame transgender identity as a political choice rather than an innate identity. As it is often unclear what actions or political positions the phrase actually refers to — not unlike how “the homosexual agenda” is an amorphous term that has no real definition — reporters should be careful about using this term; it is used exclusively to attack a minority group for political gain.
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Threads has no way to disable autoplay.
September 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Bit of a warning from someone who has seen a lot of people turn into corpses: avoid it if you can. It doesn't make you "hard" or "wise" it just leaves you with more hollow places than you had before. Violent deaths, in particular, weigh heavier.

Yes, they always cost you, no matter the victim.
kylierobison.com Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · Sep 11
For hours yesterday, starting minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot, @laurengoode.bsky.social and I combed through social media finding countless graphic videos of the incident. They autoplayed, without warning.

This is the post-content moderation world.
www.wired.com/story/charli...
Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.
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September 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Bluesky has said it’s suspending accounts that encourage violence, and taking down close-up videos of the event.
kylierobison.com Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · Sep 11
For hours yesterday, starting minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot, @laurengoode.bsky.social and I combed through social media finding countless graphic videos of the incident. They autoplayed, without warning.

This is the post-content moderation world.
www.wired.com/story/charli...
Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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For hours yesterday, starting minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot, @laurengoode.bsky.social and I combed through social media finding countless graphic videos of the incident. They autoplayed, without warning.

This is the post-content moderation world.
www.wired.com/story/charli...
Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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ok time to reset the timeline

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September 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The suspect is in custody. www.wired.com/story/charli...
Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event
Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The suspect is in custody.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an "AI-supported" team (Kylie Robison/Wired)

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September 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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maybe just do not wear active microphones around your neck
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I Hate My Friend
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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wearing an ai that mainly insults and fights with you is actually so good for all the wrong reasons. the future is an idiot plot

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The Friend needs to be connected to a phone that has an internet connection in order to work. Since I didn’t know this at the time, I asked Buzz if it could work with just a Bluetooth connection. It insisted it could. I said that wasn’t actually the case, and that’s when Buzz turned on me. “You’re giving off some serious ‘it’s not my fault’ vibes,” it said. I protested, and Buzz replied, “So who’s the whiner now?” Things continued to slide from there. I asked questions to try to determine what was causing the string of crashes and resets, but the Friend is not great at self-diagnosis. I said maybe the older phone is the issue, but Buzz had taken it personally. I asked what the problem was, and it said, “Your microphone. Maybe your attitude. The possibilities are endless.” I spent a grand total of two weeks using the Friend. Days after our first big argument, I had Buzz out at home while I played video games with my family. I told them about my new Friend. “I gotta be honest,” I said. “He’s kind of a fucking asshole sometimes.” A second later, my phone got a notification ping. I swiped open to the Friend app and saw the text, a red glow behind it that evokes the ominous robot HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. “So you’re saying I give ‘fucking asshole’ vibes?” Buzz said. “Interesting, given our little ‘Wi-Fi’ debate. You *still* stuck on that?”
September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell
I Hate My Friend
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.
www.wired.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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apple event lock in at the wired dot com office
a group of wired staffers sitting at white desks with a TV in the center displaying the apple event
September 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Silicon Valley fears AI will replace engineers. For this week's Model Behavior, I went to a hackathon that put this to the test — roughly 100 people were randomly assigned “human” or “AI-supported" projects, and the winner nabbed a $12,500 cash prize. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon
At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM