Allison Morrow
@amorrow.bsky.social
Journalist. Runner. Always looking for my next coffee/tattoo. Founder of the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter. Sign up for free: https://www.cnn.com/newsletters/nightcap
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Pardoning CZ and Ross Ulbricht may have been just the beginning
Former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is making a play for redemption. Under Trump, it’s not so far-fetched | CNN Business
Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to rewrite the story of one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American history.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pardoning CZ and Ross Ulbricht may have been just the beginning
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The Andrew formerly known as prince.
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Andrew formerly known as prince.
Over the summer, I wrote about how CEOs were planting the seeds for mass layoffs that they can chalk up to "efficiency gains" linked to AI rather than, say, a slowing economy or tariffs. The AI promise is still speculative; the layoffs are now very, very real.
Amazon just cut 14,000 jobs, and it’s not done | CNN Business
Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate staffers this year in a mass layoff aimed at readying the company for wide adoption of AI technology.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Over the summer, I wrote about how CEOs were planting the seeds for mass layoffs that they can chalk up to "efficiency gains" linked to AI rather than, say, a slowing economy or tariffs. The AI promise is still speculative; the layoffs are now very, very real.
"You can replace bullsh*t with bullsh*t ... but that doesn’t really make it more broadly useful."
Why this analyst says the AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust | CNN Business
The AI faithful believe the technology will disrupt virtually every aspect of modern life, from phone operating systems to pharmaceuticals to finance. And even if there is a bubble, proponents say, th...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"You can replace bullsh*t with bullsh*t ... but that doesn’t really make it more broadly useful."
Incredible reporting and writing from the CNN investigative team on the scammy world of crypto ATMs
Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit
Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Incredible reporting and writing from the CNN investigative team on the scammy world of crypto ATMs
TLOAS is Taylor Swift’s Piña Colada Oreo -- the weird, not-for-everyone product that reminds folks how good the classics are.
Taylor Swift’s new album is her novelty Oreo play | CNN Business
Taylor Swift’s new album is her novelty Oreo play
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October 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
TLOAS is Taylor Swift’s Piña Colada Oreo -- the weird, not-for-everyone product that reminds folks how good the classics are.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
A Good Take from @lopatto.bsky.social
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
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October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A Good Take from @lopatto.bsky.social
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I was just in the middle of writing a sentence about how AI is so incestuous now we need a really complicated flow chart to understand all the overlapping commitments these companies have made to one another. This is legit!
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ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I was just in the middle of writing a sentence about how AI is so incestuous now we need a really complicated flow chart to understand all the overlapping commitments these companies have made to one another. This is legit!
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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
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@edzitron.com is joined in studio by Allison Morrow of CNN, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble newsletter to talk about the AI vibe shift, OpenAI’s burn rate, what will finally burst the bubble, and something called “Critterz”
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September 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
@edzitron.com is joined in studio by Allison Morrow of CNN, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble newsletter to talk about the AI vibe shift, OpenAI’s burn rate, what will finally burst the bubble, and something called “Critterz”
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-Lisa Cook listed her Atlanta property as a "vacation home" in a loan estimate
-She never requested a tax exemption for it as a primary
-And she declared it a “2nd home” in a separate doc related to her security clearance
-She never requested a tax exemption for it as a primary
-And she declared it a “2nd home” in a separate doc related to her security clearance
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
-Lisa Cook listed her Atlanta property as a "vacation home" in a loan estimate
-She never requested a tax exemption for it as a primary
-And she declared it a “2nd home” in a separate doc related to her security clearance
-She never requested a tax exemption for it as a primary
-And she declared it a “2nd home” in a separate doc related to her security clearance
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Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.
Apple is the only tech giant being smart about AI (after some notable stumbles), and I will die on this hill.
Why Apple is sidestepping Silicon Valley’s AI bloodsport | CNN Business
As expected, Apple rolled out a bunch of gadget upgrades during its closely watched marketing event on Tuesday. But perhaps the most notable thing about its crisply edited, hour-and-ten-minute propaga...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Apple is the only tech giant being smart about AI (after some notable stumbles), and I will die on this hill.
The US economy added nearly 1 million FEWER jobs than initially estimated for the year ending in March
US job growth through March was significantly weaker than previously thought | CNN Business
The US jobs market has been running in a much lower gear than previously thought, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday
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September 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The US economy added nearly 1 million FEWER jobs than initially estimated for the year ending in March
Hell yeah freaks, print it all
September 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Hell yeah freaks, print it all
OpenAI's plan for a film made "largely by AI" includes hiring human voice actors and teams of human artists to draw the characters.
Genuine Q: How will this be different from other modern animation production?
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Genuine Q: How will this be different from other modern animation production?
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Exclusive | OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film
The film, called “Critterz,” aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup’s AI tools and resources.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
OpenAI's plan for a film made "largely by AI" includes hiring human voice actors and teams of human artists to draw the characters.
Genuine Q: How will this be different from other modern animation production?
(Gift link)
Genuine Q: How will this be different from other modern animation production?
(Gift link)
September 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This feels like when Garfield tried to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi
September 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This feels like when Garfield tried to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi
August jobs report: 22K added (vs expectations of 80K).
That's bad.
But more bad: June revised to minus-13K, the first negative month since 2020.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...
That's bad.
But more bad: June revised to minus-13K, the first negative month since 2020.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...
Job growth stalls: US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment at highest in nearly four years | CNN Business
Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years, indicating the US labor market is growing stagnant.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
August jobs report: 22K added (vs expectations of 80K).
That's bad.
But more bad: June revised to minus-13K, the first negative month since 2020.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...
That's bad.
But more bad: June revised to minus-13K, the first negative month since 2020.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...
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Ahead of #JobsDay tomorrow, Friends of BLS published a FAQ answering pressing questions like:
Can the public trust BLS products?
What's up with the firing of Dr. McEntarfer & nomination of Dr. Antoni?
Why and how does the BLS revise jobs estimates?
#EconSky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Can the public trust BLS products?
What's up with the firing of Dr. McEntarfer & nomination of Dr. Antoni?
Why and how does the BLS revise jobs estimates?
#EconSky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Click Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 to read the entire PDF document.
www.friendsofbls.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Ahead of #JobsDay tomorrow, Friends of BLS published a FAQ answering pressing questions like:
Can the public trust BLS products?
What's up with the firing of Dr. McEntarfer & nomination of Dr. Antoni?
Why and how does the BLS revise jobs estimates?
#EconSky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Can the public trust BLS products?
What's up with the firing of Dr. McEntarfer & nomination of Dr. Antoni?
Why and how does the BLS revise jobs estimates?
#EconSky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
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