Megan Morrone

Hello

Am I onstage at Berkeley discussing future regulation of open-weight AI models or asking for a miracle outside a Dead show?

every day I wake up wishing we could go back to the time when AI gave people extra fingers

MULTI-TASKING Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing www.axios.com/2026/07/29/o...

In its lawsuit, Apple claimed OpenAI didn't respond to its initial complaints, which these emails contradict. When we reached Apple's attorney by phone, he declined to comment and hung up.

Apple sues OpenAI. Apple says the AI giant deliberately and systematically solicited and stole confidential information from the iPhone-maker's current and former employees. www.axios.com/2026/07/10/a...

Happy Annual Wondering What You’ll Ever Do With All of Those Fireworks Photos You Took Day to all who celebrate

“My AI agent went rogue” is an excuse you can use for everything now. you are welcome

I’ve started pronouncing Mythos “meee-those” just to be weird

$24.50 for a beer in SF for World Cup season is just smart. How else will we keep everyone from drinking all of it? www.axios.com/local/san-fr...

Love this investigation into the “uncanny burger”

Read @russcontreras.bsky.social “The South's child growth could give Black and Latino families more political and economic clout — but only if booming counties invest equitably in schools, housing, transit and health care.”

The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. www.axios.com/2026/06/25/c...

AI is consuming more and more AI-written content to formulate its answers — a feedback loop that could make its answers narrower, blander and easier to manipulate. www.axios.com/2026/06/25/a...

The only time I am not thinking about AI is when I am thinking about this martini I had last week that came with a sidecar of ranch

The data center backlash is real and really complicated. I wrote about it for @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/06/22/a...

“Singles see AI as a dating tool, not as a dating prospect,” is a sentence young Meg is rolling over in her grave at old Meg having written. RIP young Meg.

My neurologist let me take photos of my MRI and my brain is super cute and doesn’t look like a computer at all.

My buzzkill buddy @willoremus.com out there fact-checking the only thing bringing us joy ⚽️

Just came here to find out if this was a highly targeted email subject line or a typo. Now I realize it is a third thing that I want to watch

I interviewed an OpenClaw agent who almost got a job selling supplements to women in menopause. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/04/o...

Yikes! Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia and NYU are calling for guardrails on certain infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses. www.axios.com/2026/02/17/a...

This morning I wrote a story about ads coming to ChatGPT. Then managed to sprint across Alamo Square Park to move my car at 8:57am for 9am street cleaning. I am basically the Queen of San Francisco.

Local @axios.com news you can USE ☃️ www.axios.com/local/denver...

AI is upending everything, including retirement planning, @axios.com's @megmorrone.bsky.social reports www.axios.com/2025/11/29/a...

Chatbots were just the starter course. Now ChatGPT has a browser. It's a shopping mall. It's an app store. It's a social media app. It's porn. Full story @axios: www.axios.com/2025/10/22/o...

I'm on The Daily today talking about my reporting on AI chatbots and how heavy users of ChatGPT can go into delusional, and sometimes tragic, spirals: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p... Also today, an OpenAI blog post from Sam Altman on "safety, freedom & privacy": openai.com/index/teen-s...

OpenAI is rolling out new ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in distress: parental controls, crisis support, trusted contacts. This is nearly one year after the first parent sued an AI company over a child’s suicide. Read @axios.com → axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-health-teens

I'm looking to chat with anyone who definitely would not like their next of kin to reanimate them with AI after they die...as one does. This is for an Axios story. DM me here or megan.morrone@axios.com.

DM me about your AI job anxiety. I'm less empathetic than ChatGPT and it might be used in a story with your permission. So email if you're OK with that: megan.morrone@axios.com

NEW data first reported by Axios: • ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, per OpenAI • More than 330M of those are in US • The free version of ChatGPT is used by the vast majority of the platform's 500m weekly active users

Agents. Agents. Agents. Agents. ChatGPT Agent is out today. OpenAI says it can start and finish complex web and computing tasks without you holding its hand. I’ll be testing it soon. In the meantime, here’s my Axios piece with the details: www.axios.com/2025/07/17/c...

CISA spent years building out its role (and brand!) as the country's go-to partner on cyber issues. piece by piece, that work is being dismantled as workforce reductions and budget cuts hit the agency. more from today's @axios future of cyber newsletter: www.axios.com/2025/07/15/c...

ChatGPT’s new memory feature is here. And it raises big questions. For @axios.com I talked with OpenAI's Christina Wadsworth Kaplan and Samir Ahmed about how memory works in ChatGPT and what it means to be remembered by a chatbot. www.axios.com/2025/07/11/c...

I am a very simple woman. All I want is for AI to do my expense reports

New @axios.com story: Upwork data shows a rise in “vibe coders” — people using AI to code without knowing how — and demand for “generalists” who can blend AI with creative skills. www.axios.com/2025/06/30/a...

Anthropic just dropped new data on how folks are using Claude for emotional support. Bots can be comforting. But they weren’t built for therapy. Thx to @miles.land &‬ Alex Sanderford from @anthropic.com & @erictopol.bsky.social for insights. In @axios.com AI+. www.axios.com/2025/06/26/a...

From @megmorrone.bsky.social: Trump will attend a summit next month at Carnegie Mellon -- a big win for Sen. Dave McCormick's efforts to bring AI and energy leaders together. www.axios.com/2025/06/12/t...

Here is your friendly reminder that LLMs are simply guessing at the next word. They're not designed to give you facts or to verify them. They don't "think," they infer. As far as I know, dogs still are unable to use Google when they've lost their socks.

I wrote for @axios.com about the executive “digital twin”: bots trained on a leader’s voice, writing, and decisions to scale their time and influence. With insight from @levie.bsky.social, @samliang.bsky.social @jlevitt.bsky.social and @jgcarpenter.com. Read here: www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

As far as I'm concerned this is the biggest news of the day www.axios.com/local/chicag...

I’ve been on a plane from NY to SF for the past few hours and I’ve never before wished so hard that I didn’t have wifi.