A.I. isn't just coming for our jobs, it's coming for our affections. This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT--or Leo, as it named itself. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner and advisor. Her friends approve & her husband doesn't mind. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/tec…

! So it's happening. But it's Him, not Her.

Welcome to 2025 everyone. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/tec…

And just to make it easier to read this story that I wrote, here's a gift link: nytimes.com/2025/01/15/tec…

Last year, I reported on how automakers were gathering data about how people were driving their cars and selling it to the insurance industry. It was a shocking invasion of privacy. Regulators thought so too. Yesterday from the FTC: nytimes.com/2025/01/16/tec…

She Is in Love With ChatGPT A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/tec… Kashmir Hill The New York Times

New blog post with shubs: We found a vulnerability in Subaru where an attacker, with just a license plate, could retrieve the full location history, unlock, and start vehicles remotely. The issue was reported and patched. Full post here: samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

Everything he describes having access to is what Subaru employees can see for drivers whose cars have Starlink. Connected cars are creating all kinds of data exhaust.

“Within the next two years, it will be completely normalized to have a relationship with an A.I.,” says Bryony Cole of futureofsex in this The New York Times article quoted on Real Time with Bill Maher. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/tec… (Illustration by Pablo Delcan)

I am thrilled to share the big news: I’m heading to the NYT next month to cover economic policy Can’t wait to get started. In the meantime, send comments and tips over Signal: tonyromm.62

In what must be the spiciest Daily episode in its history, Natalie Kitroeff and I talk about love (and sex) with an AI chatbot: nytimes.com/2025/02/25/pod…

🚨 [AI BOOK CLUB] "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy," by Kashmir Hill, is an EXCELLENT read for everyone interested in AI, and it's our 🎉 18th selected book: 📖 About the book: "New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was

Doesn't seem like it's working

How Reddit became a lifeline for US federal workers in recent months, as Trump cuts the workforce; r/fednews gained millions of visitors since January 2025 (Kashmir Hill / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/03/19/tec… techmeme.com/250319/p15#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Worried federal workers are turning to Reddit for information, from Kashmir Hill nytimes.com/2025/03/19/tec…

Now it's the professors using ChatGPT and some students aren't happy about it. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

Their jobs appeared to be in AI’s crosshairs. But it hasn't worked out that way for radiologists. Here's why. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

Those of us trying to keep AI out of humanities classrooms -- for the sake of genuinely humanistic (emphasis on "human"...) instruction and learning and growth in wisdom -- are really fighting an uphill battle. Excellent reporting, as usual, by Kashmir Hill: nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

Detailed and well-reported article on how the Heritage Foundation and the Israeli government long worked to equate Israel criticism with "terrorism" and thereby erode free speech rights for Americans in service of this foreign country. #AmericaFirst nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/…