kate conger

writing about this website for @nytimes. tell me stories: [email protected]. tour dates and more:

[kate conger @kateconger]

2 years of reporting & writing with @RMac18, and we have one hell of a story to tell you! Our first book, CHARACTER LIMIT, is coming this September! https://t.co/NP40MxBQWC

[Hadas Gold @Hadas_Gold]

ICYMI - OpenAI says Elon Musk messaged Greg Brockman two days before trial began, gauging settlement possiblity. When Brockman replied saying they should drop their claims, Musk wrote back “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be.” (from OpenAI filing last night with court)

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

The day before the 20th anniversary of the first post on Twitter, Elon Musk was found liable of misleading investors before he bought the company in 2022 for $44 billion.

Tweeting does have consequences, apparently.

https://t.co/36tps8RBjZ

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

Scoop from me: Meta delays Avocado 🥑 after performance concerns.

The new model is better than Llama 4 but worse than other frontiers — somewhere in between Gemini 2.5 and 3.

There is excitement about the model after Avo, named after an even larger fruit: Watermelon 🍉

[Kalley Huang @KalleyHuang]

I’m now reporting on Apple for The New York Times.

If you’re a current or former Apple employee, or if you’ve worked with Apple, let’s chat! I’m at kalley.57 on Signal and [email protected].

https://t.co/w5FILGBTQR

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The EU fined X $140 million for violating rules governing the transparency of online platforms. https://t.co/fL9HqZYUhE

[kate conger @kateconger]

@AsteadWH :((((((

[kate conger @kateconger]

@kevinroose @LoebAwards Is this AI?

[kate conger @kateconger]

I wrote about xAI's waifus and talked to people who are sexting the chatbots, falling in love, and even using them to journal because they're eager to see Musk succeed in the A.I. field: https://t.co/WFuBfqXfj3

[kate conger @kateconger]

@PatrickMcGee_ @SABEW @RMac18 @evadou @firstadopter congrats!

[kate conger @kateconger]

"Daddy is very much home." Our story looks inside xAI this summer, as Elon Musk returned from government. This week, employees were told Grok has 64 million MAUs and that Musk is serious about building a Microsoft competitor called Macrohard https://t.co/D1JiBhyWYN

[Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis]

Today with @Haleaziz: Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn't violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway. https://t.co/N3WYFREFHY

[kate conger @kateconger]

We experimented with Grok to see how its politics shifted over time and found that, on some issues, it was successfully shifted to mirror Musk's politics. But on some social issues, Grok remained stubbornly left-leaning, frustrating Musk & his fans: https://t.co/I2jOagprg6

[roon @tszzl]

My grok companions are unionizing

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

How Musk and other Trump allies have used the courts to try to silence a liberal group that has criticized them and the president. So far it has worked: The group has pared back public statements and may have to shut down. @kenvogel @kateconger @ryanmac https://t.co/kphxv2YuCL

[kate conger @kateconger]

This is weird: Grok blamed DOGE cuts for deaths in the Texas floods, writing, "Facts over feelings." Called out by Musk fans, it doubled down: "Facts aren't woke; they're just facts." Then it backtracked and claimed screenshots of the posts were fake (they're not).

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

scoop: the FTC is in talks to approve a huge advertising merger on the eve of Cannes. The catch? It could prohibit the company from withholding ad spending based on political considerations. w/ @laurenshirsch, @kateconger and @tiffkhsu
https://t.co/VGplT20zc4

[kate conger @kateconger]

@mimms omg!!! thank you

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

The @FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising & advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers on X & several conservative social media platforms, @kateconger & @tiffkhsu report. https://t.co/9IJYIYQYGa

[kate conger @kateconger]

@teddyschleifer nah not really

[kate conger @kateconger]

@alx @DOGE lol thank you?