Ina Fried

San Francisco

Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios

Chief Technology Correspondent for @Axios; former Senior Editor at Recode. Huge softball, hockey, basketball fan. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

Articles

OpenAI rolls out o3 and o4-mini

1 week ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

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OpenAI updates its system for evaluating AI risks

1 week ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Illustration: Natalie Peeples/AxiosOpenAI is making several changes to the system it uses to evaluate the risks new models pose, adding new categories for models that could self-replicate or conceal their capabilities. Why it matters: OpenAI uses its "preparedness framework" to decide whether AI models are safe and what, if any, safeguards are needed during development and for public release.
Nvidia, Apple, other tech giants weave way through Trump's tariff minefield

1 week ago | axios.com | Ina Fried |Scott Rosenberg

Illustration: Annelise Capossela/AxiosU.S. tech giants are awkwardly navigating two paths through the minefield of President Trump's global trade war. The big picture: Companies like Apple and Nvidia are altering their short-term supply chains and diversifying their product sourcing to minimize the cost of Trump's tariffs. At the same time, they're doing everything they can to get on Trump's good side, hoping it will pay off in carve-outs or other favors.
AI, parenting, poetry at TED 2025

1 week ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Poet Salome Agbaroji speaks at TED 2025 in Vancouver. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TEDAI is leaping over the borders of tech and business and making waves across culture, from art and poetry to medicine and parenting, as this week's TED conference in Vancouver highlighted. Why it matters: The technology is already reshaping our lives, even as critics warn that the underlying systems remain dangerously unreliable. The big picture: Every recent TED has had AI talks.
Google's Cloud Next shows AI in action for Mattel and others

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Google's Cloud Next conference shows generative AI in action.
TED Conference disrupted by economic turmoil and tariff fears

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Ina Fried
Mattel's Barbie fix shows AI payoff

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ina Fried

23 hours agoWhen executing innovation remember that when you change strategy, but don’t change how you execute, you get the strategy you started with and were trying to change In 2007, SAP, the German software giant, made a bold commitment to sell 10,000 software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions by 2010.1 Over …
Google shows new AR glasses, VR headset at TED

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/AxiosGoogle on Tuesday for the first time showed off prototype glasses that combine a miniature display with the company's Gemini AI assistant. Why it matters: Google joins Meta, Apple and others in exploring the ability to overlay a digital display on the real world. Cost remains a hurdle to bringing such devices to a broad mrket. Google also demoed a forthcoming mixed reality headset along the lines of Apple's Vision Pro in demos at the TED Conference in Vancouver.
U.S.'s AI lead over China rapidly shrinking, Stanford report finds

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Illustration: Maura Losch/AxiosThe U.S. is still the global leader in state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, but China has closed the gap considerably, according to a new report from Stanford. Why it matters: Many leaders in Silicon Valley and D.C., including in the Trump administration, say winning this AI competition is critical to the future of U.S. national security.
AI still needs to up its March Madness game

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Ina Fried

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/AxiosThe AI chatbots we invited into our long-running Axios AI+ women's bracket challenge this year were no match for most of the competitors among Axios readers and staff. State of play: Not only did the AI chatbots have trouble filling out their March Madness brackets, they ended up finishing below most of the human pickers, at least for the women's tournament, which wrapped up Sunday.