Allison Morrow

Nominating ‘Everyone here wants to have sex with Nathan Fielder’ as the best CNN headline of the year, nice work @davidmackau.bsky.social

Trump has raked in more than $1 billion from his crypto businesses. Investors in those assets are sitting on billions of paper losses.

"Machchhar, despite being attacked and dealing with an aircraft that was losing altitude, had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door, make an announcement over the public-address system and call for help." Gift link:

I'm constantly baffled by the AI proponents who point to an LLM output and say, "look it can do art!" Quite simply: No, it cannot.

"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes." -Annie Dillard, Write Till You Drop

Scoop: 4 anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond w/ Trump & sons’ holdings have taken first step to enable offloading of family’s own crypto, records show Could be worth billions of dollars Meanwhile, retail investors have lost +$1B www.washingtonsun.com/donald-trump...

WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com

@djlavoie.bsky.social asked me what would happen if Elon died and I said I didn't know but I'd look into it. Here's what I found out: Lots and lots of paper value goes up in smoke.

The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.

Dolly Parton was a poet

A CNN investigation found that a Russian-born federal contractor in the US led a double life. The US govt has said nothing about who Ilya Beloozerov was or why the FBI shot killed him. Incredible reporting from my colleague Isabelle Chapman. (Paywalled)

Investors are bracing for the end of the AI rally. Short interest is now higher than at any other time since the fallout of the financial crisis.

If you're recording social conversations you're a narc and a loser. Publicly shame these people. Smash the device. Do not give consent. (Gift link)

* screaming *

Last night, I published the last edition of Nightcap, the CNN Business newsletter I launched six years ago. It feels weird! But it means I'll be able to do more in-depth reporting outside the confines of a daily deadline. I'm excited, if a bit sad. www.cnn.com/newsletters/...

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

1. This is super well done. 2. There's a kicker that doesn't get talked about enough: "We are making the most money we have ever made, yet we have the least financial freedom we have ever experienced."

Bottom line: Nothing about this offer makes much sense, financially or strategically.

I just think if you know me here, you should also know Hank. This is Hank.

“Try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom...perhaps you've never done that before. This would be a first. Can you agree to that?" --Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, per CNN's Samantha Delouya

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

The nail in the coffin of Millennial optimism

I don’t know how you run this story on a pile of evidence that amounts to “these two cryptography enthusiasts on the internet sometimes said similar things”

So good.

The first words I ever published about the Metaverse 💅

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

Horrifying as expected but also pretty funny at the end when Mace says "if you can't define what a woman is, you can't define what fraud is."

The FBI director fired a dozen counterintelligence experts, days before the Iran attacks, because those people did their jobs. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

“This isn’t an AI story. It’s a workforce correction wearing an AI costume,” wrote Jason Karsh, a former Block employee, on X. Gift link:

"The narrative that U.S. growth was dependent on AI spending emerged early last year when the economy looked wobbly ... It was tough to shake the narrative once it took hold."

Super sustainable, I'd say

Gosh if only some economist would have warned us this would happen

Every time one of these AI CEOs goes viral for saying the most self-serving, demonstrably false nonsense I am fascinated by how many people take it seriously.

OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, created in 2024 to promote the company's stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, per @caseynewton.bsky.social @platformer.news.web.brid.gy

This is not a "free grocery store," it's a pop-up food bank, open for one long weekend, designed to give Polymarket some good press.

Fun fact: Yale University holds a 379-year-old “perpetual” bond, written on goat skin and issued by Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams, a Dutch water authority. som.yale.edu/story/2026/p...

Scoop: In a letter to lawmakers, NY AG Tish James and four DAs call out Tether and Circle for throttling law enforcement efforts to claw back funds for victims of fraud.

Instead of career journalists, we really ought to be sending Gen-Z interns with three roommates and no health insurance to cover Davos

In my “listening to Max Richter and crying while I make dinner” era, join me fam this shit rips

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

There are no more Gary Genslers for crypto to blame for its problems. The industry got everything it wanted this year, and it still can't find its footing.

I lived in Hong Kong in a golden era of free speech, when Jimmy Lai's pro-democracy Apple Daily was just part of the ether. His conviction should be a warning to democracies everywhere.

When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.