Keach Hagey

Fun talking to @jimsciutto at @CNN about Sam Altman, Jony Ive, OpenAI and THE OPTIMIST https://t.co/XDpr82SGQr

Thanks, @RichardWaters, for the great review of THE OPTIMIST in the Financial Times! “Timely and myth-busting” — Richard Waters, Financial Times https://t.co/8Gsp1aobD9

Thanks, @ShakeelHashim, for the thoughtful review of THE OPTIMIST: “The Optimist is the slimmer volume but the heavier hitter, a zippy work that serves not just as a biography of Altman, but also a miniature history of the past twenty years of tech. If you want to understand the

Details about the mysterious new OpenAI-Jony Ive device from leaked audio obtained by the unstoppable @berber_jin1 : · will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life · will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk · will be a third

Thanks to the @TheEconomist for a great review of THE OPTIMIST! “[An] excellent new book… [Altman’s] personality is vivid and complicated enough that her story never flags. It is no hagiography.” — The Economist https://t.co/nFjGqLtOmr

Breaking: Jony Ive and his firm are taking over creative and design control at OpenAI as he and Sam Altman continue to collaborate on the mysterious not-a-phone. w/ @berber_jin1 https://t.co/mIPVqYDe6W via @WSJ

Thank you, @firstadopter!

tae kim @firstadopter

Happy OpenAI book day for all who celebrate. Congratulations to @keachhagey and @_KarenHao Books are insanely hard work. Please support long-form journalism and buy their books. https://t.co/2rbgp18Uss

RT @adamm0rgan: Did writing the first biography of Sam Altman make @keachhagey more or less optimistic about the future? I asked her for…

One of the most fascinating things I discovered in reporting THE OPTIMIST was how profoundly the story was shaped by science fiction. Today, as we launch the book into the world, @WIRED offers readers an excerpt tracing the stranger-than-fiction roots of the modern AI race—and

Thanks to The New Yorker for a great review of THE OPTIMIST, which @benwallacewells calls “quite compelling.” https://t.co/92M0BPXGSO

Thank you, @davidenrich!

David Enrich @davidenrich

I highly recommend @keachhagey’s new book, THE OPTIMIST, about Sam Altman. Fascinating, beautifully written and (at least to me) deeply unnerving. https://t.co/mHZ5TSYcOW https://t.co/Aucfs3ChnC

When OpenAI goes public in the next few years, Sam Altman told employees he wants new hire Fidji Simo, who is leaving her post as Instacart's CEO to join this summer, to handle the earnings calls. A look at what this new generation of increasingly delegated leadership means for

THE OPTIMIST is The Guardian’s book of the day! “The Optimist serves to remind us that however unprecedented the consequences of AI models might be, the story of their development is a profoundly human one.” — James Ball, The Guardian https://t.co/Sjj4wfkVvp

Thanks, @LukeJKummer! I can't believe how lucky I am to get to work with someone of your talent. There is no one more dogged or creative.

Luke Jerod Kummer @LukeJKummer

THE OPTIMIST: Sam Altman, OpenAI & the Race to Invent the Future by @WSJ's @keachhagey lands 5/20. I was honored to help research as she wrote a modern epic & pried open the head of one of today's most consequential figures. Have a look—it's wild! https://t.co/9SLec2l1aC https://t.co/VrNKiiWt83

Fun talking to @KeenOnAmerica about OpenAI's decision to back off its restructuring plan and my forthcoming book ,THE OPTIMIST, out in less than two weeks! https://t.co/b5En8nV9pO