Executive Editor for Global Technology & California at POLITICO | Golden 🐻 | “Ain’t nobody bigger than the program, ‘til you bigger than the program.”

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Starshield slowdown probe sought by Silicon Valley Democrats politi.co/4idXbIC
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NEWS: I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's latest Nashville Antichrist lectures. In his third talk delivered on Oct. 12, he breaks with the Trump admin on the U.S. war with Iran. “I think we should not have done it,” he said. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.” politico.com/news/2026/10/21…
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SCOOP: Anthropic has been quietly pitching its own AI safety bill to members of Congress. Get the details here: politico.com/news/2026/10/16…
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A new super PAC created by two longtime Democratic operatives is spending $4 million across four key House races to portray Republicans as beholden to the AI lobby. But they have their work cut out for them.👇 Read the latest in Decoded: politi.co/4yP0Yn9
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‘She totally blew it’: How Kamala Harris wasted a year to make her case Harris has offered voters almost nothing in the way of specifics about how she would remake a Democratic Party hungry for change after another term of Donald Trump. politico.com/news/2026/10/13…
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“We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” Katie Zacharia, the president’s new press secretary, told reporters in a Tuesday press briefing. “She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.” politico.com/news/2026/10/13…
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NEWS: @JayCarney told me that his new boss, Democratic megadonor and venture capitalist @RonConway, regrets his previous donation to the AI industry Super PAC Leading the Future.
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Scoop: Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is heading to L.A. for a fundraiser hosted by Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, UTA CEO David Kramer, filmmaker Grant Heslov and several other Hollywood players — 15 days before Election Day. Details: politico.com/news/2026/10/10…
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‘Clearly not working’: Sam Altman hits AI industry over political spending politi.co/4egKRWX
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NEW: I interviewed OpenAI CEO @sama for tomorrow's launch of Politico's new Decoded newsletter + podcast. We covered everything from Sam's thoughts on AI $$$ in politics to Trump's "SI" rebrand. Sneak preview in reply, w/ @MuiChristine!
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The smartest thing you’ll read about the Internet this month:
The dream of the open internet is over. And in the last few years democracies in particular have built whole new regulatory systems online — we’re now living in the age of the isolationist internet. My reported essay for @POLITICOMag : politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.” In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic. Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
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Decoded by POLITICO THE SAM ALTMAN INTERVIEW, out in full tomorrow. Where Altman diverges from rival Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei: “The world should accept some bad things happening” for the benefits of AI politico.com/news/2026/10/04…
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Trump’s gives spy chief new title: AI czar politi.co/3TEqoV6
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Newsom on 2028 timeline: ‘There’s no such thing as a deadline’ vist.ly/5ki68
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After the massive 2025 wildfire, there was no greater political enemy in the Pacific Palisades than LA Mayor Karen Bass. Yet Palisades voters, who trend more conservative than the rent of the city, remain wary of Bass' DSA-endorsed opponent Nithya Raman politico.com/news/2026/09/28…
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