Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge, where she leads coverage of the biggest names in AI — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others — while also reporting on how these tools are being used, their societal implications, and how regulators are responding. Prior to The Verge, Field was the AI beat reporter at CNBC, where she covered the industry’s shifting power dynamics, employee concerns within AI giants like Google, Amazon and OpenAI, Sam Altman’s ouster, FTC inquiries into top tech companies, and the AI arms race at large. Signal: haydenfield.11
Researchers warned AI would go rogue. This is only the beginning.
Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.
An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.
The Intercept, citing documents it had seen, reported that the Pentagon requested a custom version of OpenAI’s technology with “minimal refusal rates” for military commands. OpenAI denied ever having signed a contract with such phrasing.
Subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan ($100-$200 per month) say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for.
It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-6 Astra after the company’s models hacked Hugging Face.
Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.
