Kylie Robison

AI position

No x-risk mention

Covers the frontier labs as a business and culture beat, with sourcing inside OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.

Sheet category (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot): No clear personal stance

Hand-added beat reporter; not part of the ranked 300 snapshot.

Why influential

Fast, well-sourced lab coverage that other outlets follow; strong social distribution.

Who pays attention

Lab employees, tech investors, other AI reporters

Work samplesunvetted

• Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding

  Jul 21, 2025 · article

  Scoop on leaked internal Anthropic memo; widely cited across tech press (Techmeme, Futurism, LessWrong discussion).

• Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude

  Jun 1, 2025 · article

  Reporting on OpenAI/Anthropic API access dispute, with OpenAI comms statement.

• Inside Anthropic's first developer conference

  May 23, 2025 · article

  On-the-ground Wired coverage of Anthropic's first dev conference, including Dario Amodei comments on Trump's AI-regulation megabill and CPO Mike Krieger's Claude-authored-code stat.

• The Great Reset At OpenAI — EP 67 Sam Altman And Greg Brockman

  Apr 21, 2026 · podcast

  Co-hosted with Ashlee Vance on Core Memory; first joint media podcast appearance by Altman and Brockman together, covering restructuring, Sora, and AGI plans.

AI-world contactsunvetted

• Sam Altman — CEO, OpenAI

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Apr 21, 2026 — Co-hosted (with Ashlee Vance) a 90-minute Core Memory podcast interview with Altman and Brockman, their first joint media podcast appearance.

• Dario Amodei — Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Jul 21, 2025 — Broke story on leaked internal Amodei memo discussing UAE/Qatar investment and the 'no bad person' principle; quoted extensively from Slack messages.
  • Quoted / citeddirectness unclassified · May 23, 2025 — Reported Amodei's on-record comments at Anthropic's first developer conference about Trump's proposed 10-year ban on state AI regulation.

• Greg Brockman — President/Co-founder, OpenAI

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Co-guest with Sam Altman on Robison's Core Memory podcast episode, their first joint media appearance.

• Mike Krieger — Chief Product Officer, Anthropic

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Quoted by Robison at Anthropic's first developer conference stating 70%+ of Anthropic's code PRs are now written by Claude.