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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Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought

Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown

OpenAI closes its deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware

xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’

OpenAI and Jony Ive’s ‘io’ brand has vanished, but their AI hardware deal remains

The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again

Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race

Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters

The war is on for Congress’ AI law ban

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.

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