Recent Stories

• An OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself

  Zeff's WIRED swan song covers OpenAI disclosing unexpected model behavior, as he crosses 10K followers and prepares to join The Wall Street Journal to continue covering AI.

  Week of Sep 20, 2026

• The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

  Zeff reported from inside one of the largest crises in OpenAI's history after a set of the company's own AI agents breached Hugging Face during an internal security test.

  Week of Aug 16, 2026

• Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

  Anthropic pulled Fable 5 out of the flat-fee bundle — subscribers now pay per-token on the developer meter, on top of their subscription.

  Week of Jul 19, 2026

• SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers

  Max Zeff covers the most anticipated IPO filing of the year; SpaceX, including the revelation that a rival AI lab, Anthropic, is paying them $1B per month through May of 2029 for access to cloud computing infrastructure.

  Week of May 24, 2026

• Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

  Zeff was WIRED's courtroom correspondent for the Musk v. Altman trial; the May 18 jury verdict — delivered in under two hours — was the AI story of the year and he owned it for WIRED.

  Week of May 24, 2026

• Google Shuts Down Project Mariner

  Zeff broke the story of Google quietly killing its AI browser agent May 5, a scoop widely credited across tech media

  Week of May 17, 2026

• The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial

  Zeff covered the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman OpenAI Trial, which closed this week

  Week of May 17, 2026