Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge, where she leads coverage of the biggest names in AI — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others — while also reporting on how these tools are being used, their societal implications, and how regulators are responding. Prior to The Verge, Field was the AI beat reporter at CNBC, where she covered the industry’s shifting power dynamics, employee concerns within AI giants like Google, Amazon and OpenAI, Sam Altman’s ouster, FTC inquiries into top tech companies, and the AI arms race at large. Signal: haydenfield.11
It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-6 Astra after the company’s models hacked Hugging Face.
Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.
Sam Altman is still CEO, but in day-to-day operations, his second-in-command is running the show.
Citing an unnamed source, CNBC reported that OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said at a recent investor meeting that OpenAI “entered the year at 60-40, but enterprise has accelerated much faster than expected and those lines have now crossed … The majority of our revenue is now enterprise.”
