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Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter

Senior AI Reporter

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

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