Katy Haynes

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. propublica.org/article/united…

This announcement arrives hours after our investigation (newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…) described how OpenAI dissolved its superalignment and AGI-readiness teams and dropped safety from the list of its most significant activities on its IRS filings—and how, when we asked to speak with researchers, working on existential safety, a representative replied "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That's not, like, a thing."

It’s actually a good thing that Americans are seeing high gas prices and long lines at airports. These are direct results of Republican policies More people need to feel the direct pain of Republican policies in their lives Politics is not some abstract concept. It is your grocery bill, your medical insurance costs, your ability to get childcare and hold companies accountable for fraud, and wealthy guys like me getting massive unnecessary tax cuts while you pay thousands more for a pointless war and tariffs

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

Horrifying. We need to know exactly how this happened. Again, I do not believe for a second that this was intentional, but a terrible terrible mistake was made. We very much need to know if any policy changes contributed to it.

Vivian gave it all up to be herself because nothing is worth anything if you can’t be true to yourself. Many people don’t realize this until it’s too late.

Today I read about a moment @sarah_drory spoke up. Because she spoke up things happened. Thank you Sarah. We see you. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

.@OpenAI is nothing without its people -- many of whom are brilliant, ethical, and able to work anywhere. Please, guys -- is this empowerment of authoritarians really what you want to be striving towards? Your talents are better-used elsewhere.

It is incredibly depressing to see OpenAI employees trying to spin the OpenAI-DoW deal as a good thing. OpenAI caved to the Pentagon's demands. Your technology can now be used for authoritarian ends. Own up to it.

Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face. He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now? He didn’t hesitate. Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country.” Anthropic built their models to defend America. They were the first AI lab cleared for classified military systems. They wanted to help the warfighter. But the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access to fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens. Amodei drew the line. The government responded with emergency Cold War powers. A supply chain designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. A six-month federal phaseout ordered from Truth Social. Amodei: “When we were threatened with supply chain designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.” The administration framed Anthropic’s refusal as anti-American. Amodei’s response dismantled that framing in one sentence. Amodei: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.” Here is the deeper paradox nobody in Washington wants to say out loud. We are in a geopolitical race against autocratic adversaries who use AI for mass surveillance of their own citizens and autonomous weapons with no human oversight. The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic build those exact capabilities for America. Amodei: “The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values.” You cannot defeat authoritarianism by adopting its methods. You cannot defend the open society by forcing private companies to build its antithesis under threat of wartime emergency powers. Anthropic held the line. Got blacklisted for it. And came out the other side saying the same thing they said going in. That is what it actually looks like to mean it.

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininthem…

history is unfolding in front of us it's now obvious and evident to everyone with eyes to see why anthropic founding was a crucial fork in the timeline, and how catastrophic the counterfactual would've been otherwise still surprising though how fast it took to reach this point

I’m extremely disturbed and disappointed by the decision of a number of New York City hospitals to cease providing gender-affirming care to all patients under 19 years old. This decision, prompted by the Trump administration’s threat to withhold Medicaid funding at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will jeopardize the lives and well-being of their patients. Studies have shown that ending gender-affirming care after it has begun without patient consent can carry significant physical and mental health risks. For these young patients, gender-affirming care is life-affirming care.

Nobody is more indoctrinated than someone who says “I’m not into politics.” Every time that’s uttered is another win for elites. Politics is weekends, the 8-hr work day, clean drinking water, wages, quality schools & a functioning healthcare system. Everything is politics.

@KumarAGarg Chris @CSElmendorf and his Abundance Academic Network team would have some great ideas

UPDATE: We are launching a design sprint on what a Housing Abundance Fund could accomplish, and we would love your ideas. Our focus will be on opportunities that leverage the policy momentum that exists and fill-in gaps (data, tech, partnerships) to get shovels in the ground.

Full statement from Micayla Pretti, younger sister of Alex Pretti, who was killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday:

This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."

The performance of the newly released ChatGPT Health, via a thorough assessment by @geoffreyfowler with his health data, is very disappointing gift link wapo.st/49GEASP

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

He's right you know. How bad do things have to get before you say something?