Senior AI Reporter
Kylie Robison is a Senior AI Reporter for The Verge, working closely with The Verge’s policy and tech teams. She joined The Verge from Fortune, where she extensively covered the inner-workings of Elon Musk’s X with scoops on its plans to begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features, its plans to remove headlines from news articles, a chaotic internal all-hands after the platform sued Media Matters, and more. She authored the magazine’s cover story on OpenAI and has also profiled buzzy AI startups like Runway. She lives in San Francisco with her cat, who regularly appears in the background of her meetings. She spends her free time snowboarding, traveling, and playing games on her Nintendo Switch.
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Ethics statement, May 2024: Kylie's parent is employed by GitHub. She therefore does not currently report or edit stories about GitHub products or GitHub as a company.
I’m at Fortune’s MPW dinner in San Francisco, where OpenAI CTO Mira Murati had a quick, wide-ranging conversation about the state of the company.
What I found most interesting was her comments on the weird board structure: The previous non-profit board structure didn’t have accountability to anyone but themselves, she said. That is the old board that ousted CEO Sam Altman.
Apple held talks with both Google and OpenAI about integrating their chatbots into iOS 18, according to Bloomberg, but it looks like OpenAI won out. The pair plan to announce the news at Apple’s developer conference, WWDC.
The Information confirmed, per a source, that the deal has been secured, adding that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is concerned about how it could conflict with their partnership.
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After Google’s new AI Overview feature told users to put glue on their pizza to help the cheese stick, I wrote that someone would surely do this soon because “that’s the nature of the internet.”
Leave it to the legend Katie Notopoulos, a tech correspondent at Business Insider, to make our dreams come true. Not only did she eat it, she blogged it.