Ronan Farrow

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Some key research: @gupta_atulk, Howell, et al.: academic.oup.com/rfs/article-ab… Kannan, Bruch, et al.: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40982974/

Of course, not all acquisitions are all downside. But the data now suggests that this business model produces predictable, measurable harm.

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

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Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera company, says its tech just makes neighborhoods safer. Critics contend that it’s the largest privately owned surveillance dragnet in US history, with significant potential for abuse.

Will be—announcement on timing still coming, so stay tuned.

Ronan Farrow Plays Investigator and the Investigated in Two New HBO Series hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ron…

@mu25685010 @Tribeca @HBO @Randybarbato @fbailey Awesome!

@RonanFarrow @Tribeca @HBO @Randybarbato @fbailey Will be there

Join me tomorrow @tribeca for a preview of my next two @HBO investigative series—The Palladino Files and Not a Very Good Murderer, stories that have taken over my life, back-to-back. I’ll be there for Q&A after with @Randybarbato and @fbailey. Tix here: tribecafilm.com/films/not-a-ve…

@BurtonPixels Nevertheless, like it or not, this technology is getting integrated into the fabric of most people’s lives.

@RonanFarrow I think I don’t want or need to use #AI at all, so I don’t.

What happens when you let AI models run a simulated society?

@Utkarsh51557661 Check the video!

@RonanFarrow you get some wild results. what kind of scenarios are you imagining?

@BillMoo23535153 @NewYorker Very kind, thank you.

@RonanFarrow @NewYorker The world needs more Ronan Farrow

This week, in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, the jury saw video of a sworn deposition from Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO. Elaborating on her comments in our latest @NewYorker story, she alleged that Altman was not always truthful, gave different executives conflicting information, and pitted them against each other. Texts between Murati and Altman were also entered as evidence. Over the course of an 18-month investigation, we traced the yearslong history of these claims from Altman's colleagues, and looked at what this tells us about integrity in AI leadership, and how it affects all of us. Here's some of what we found. And read the full story here: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

@NabiPeters72213 @NewYorker Appreciate it.

@RonanFarrow @NewYorker Thanks for your reporting

Yesterday, a federal judge barred Elon Musk's lawyers from arguing that AI could threaten humanity in his lawsuit against OpenAI. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit focused on developing AI safely. But our recent @NewYorker investigation documented how some researchers at the company have raised concerns about safety being sidelined.

@mu25685010 @NewYorker Thanks for reading.

@RonanFarrow @NewYorker Another great read. Thanks for reporting

(🧵1/10) With renewed attention on my recent @NewYorker reporting about Sam Altman and OpenAI, it's worth revisiting a piece I wrote for the magazine about another tech billionaire who has accumulated unusual leverage over the US government—and whose hand many readers have lately seen at work in their feeds. For that story, I spent months interviewing more than thirty of Elon Musk's current and former colleagues, along with current and former officials at NASA, the Department of Defense, the FAA, the Department of Transportation, and OSHA. Many of their observations have only grown more relevant since. Read the full investigation here: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… And a thread on a few of its findings below.

@susegooch @NewYorker Very kind, thank you.