Evan Ratliff

The full 8-part season 2 of Shell Game is out today. The tale of @hurumoai, the world’s first AI agent-cofounded and led startup, ready to binge. Making it weekly left me little time for hyping, so a one-shot buzz recap 🧵 if you’re on the fence: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she…

(The someone was me. The AI agent was Kyle Law, the polarizing star of Shell Game: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she…)

Someone created a startup with an AI agent CEO, who had a LinkedIn profile publishing founder hustle content. LinkedIn's marketing department invited the AI agent to give a video talk to its staff. The agent did. Then they banned it from the platform. wired.com/story/linkedin…

After the Jeffrey Epstein revelations, Peter Attia’s longevity empire is in freefall. The definitive account from @courtneybrubin and @deenashanker for @BW bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Honored to share that my work on Sudan has won the @opcofamerica Olivier Rebbot Award for Best photographic news reporting 📷 The war in Sudan has raged on for nearly three years, with 11 million displaced and more than 400,000 killed. This award is dedicated to all those we met and photographed @TheAtlantic @anneapplebaum Congrats to all the winners for some incredible journalism! opcofamerica.org/87th-annual-ov…

Verini's also got a book coming on the Ukraine war in May: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Thea…. Truly great reporter and writer, also the rare one who keeps a low-to-zero online profile and just works.

Quintessential piece of magazine journalism from James Verini in The New Yorker, on an activist who committed the strange crime of sneaking into jail and the tangled story behind it: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Carissa was the star (/conscience, although not always heeded) in episode 3 of this season's Shell Game, and I can't wait for this book:

There's even a Music Dance Experience.

Khanna had a vanity license plate on his McLaren with the parts code of the most prized catalytic converter, GD3 EA6. fox40.com/news/californi…

Leader of a $500M dollar catalytic converter theft ring pleaded guilty last week, a case I wrote about a few years ago. The company that processed the stolen material, Dowa Metals, avoided prosecution, after hiring a former DHS head of investigations: bloomberg.com/features/2023-…

Really appreciate that this AI summary of the appearance has an entire section for "Who is Kyle Law" never noting that Kyle is, in fact, an AI agent. startuphub.ai/ai-news/techno…

Showed up on Pioneers of AI along with Kyle Law to talk @hurumoai, Shell Game, and life with AI colleagues: youtube.com/watch?v=KiSTdX…

"The research, still under way, has so far found the [AI] tools didn’t reduce work, but intensified it. The employees worked at faster paces, took on broader scopes of tasks and ended up working more hours." wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isn…

I can't believe a single for-loop script I ran on @moltbook by registering 1,000,000 fake agents actually helped them get acquired by @Meta -- mental

Psyched to make my debut in the New Yorker with this profile of the bloody life and (grim) legacy of El Mencho "He was ruthless taking over business” Chicago cocaine king Margarito Flores says. His corrido goes: “They say I'm very violent, It’s true, why should I lie about it?”

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica + @NYTmag, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine. Gift link, which leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by @justjuliawhelan: nytimes.com/2026/02/22/mag…

Just wanted on person to say it, I'm good now, thank you Dreaming Android

the whole citadel report is worth your time but here's a key graf citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insig…

amazon's internal A.I. coding assistant decided the engineers' existing code was inadequate so the bot deleted it to start from scratch that resulted in taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours and was not the first time it had happened incredible ft.com/content/00c282…

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He proceeded to leak a huge trove of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 wired.com/story/he-leake…