So much fun to return to my old stomping grounds, Kepler's Books, to talk about THE OPTIMIST with Cade Metz, whose book on AI, Genius Makers was a great help to me in my early research. Thanks to all who came out!

Pope Leo is making the potential threat of AI to humanity a signature issue—challenging a tech sector that has spent years trying to cultivate the Vatican as an ally w/ Margherita Stancati 🌸 Andrew Henshaw Emily Glazer wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-l… via The Wall Street Journal

Excited to see the THE OPTIMIST on the cover of this weekend's New York Times Book Review.

Thanks, Michael K Pate!

Scoop: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spox confirmed the three have left the company.

forbes.com/sites/robertda… Reid Hoffman keachhagey Charlie English Sadie Hammond

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I am so proud of my brave, brilliant colleagues Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, proud to live in a country where the founders put freedom of speech in the very first amendment, and proud to work at The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/trump… via The Wall Street Journal

With his nemesis, Elon Musk, out of the picture, Sam Altman has forged closer ties with President Trump, dining with the president at his private golf club and declaring he has left the Democratic Party. w/Dana Mattioli Josh Dawsey wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al… via The Wall Street Journal

We have the definitive story on Dan Gross leaving SSI for Meta, the Windsurf saga, and a secret conversation between Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen—all in our epic weekend read about the AI talent wars w/ keachhagey Ben Cohen wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…

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Thanks, Henri 📖!

Everyone's complaining about egg price inflation, but now one guy costs what you could get an Instagram for in 2013

Did not have this on my bingo card, but THE OPTIMIST is a top "beach read" this summer...for people who work at Citadel businessinsider.com/citadel-securi…

Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s company. When she said no, he launched a raid – including offering one of her co-founders a pay package that could be worth as much as $1.5 billion over six years. Nobody left. Our latest installment on the AI talent

Lots of big departures from Elon Musk’s xAI lately: co-founder, general counsel, and -- alexander saeedy and I report – CFO. wsj.com/tech/ai/xais-c… via The Wall Street Journal

Fun chatting with Thomas Bourdeau about my biography of Sam Altman as it is published in France

story with keachhagey Berber Jin: wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…

Thanks to Washington Blade for its review of THE OPTIMIST, which Charles Francis says tells the story of Sam Altman and OpenAI “with the weight of a great novel.” washingtonblade.com/2025/09/21/the…

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear w/ Berber Jin Ben Fritz wsj.com/tech/ai/openai… via The Wall Street Journal