keachhagey

@keachhagey

WSJ enterprise reporter for media and tech. Mom of three. Author of the forthcoming biography of Sam Altman, The Optimist: http://bit.ly/422rRVs

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Mar 7

Excited to announce that I am publishing the first biography of Sam Altman, THE OPTIMIST: Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future (W.W. Norton), on May 20. You can preorder here: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

keachhagey's tweet image. Excited to announce that I am publishing the first biography of Sam Altman, THE OPTIMIST: Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future (W.W. Norton), on May 20. You can preorder here: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 16

So much fun to return to my old stomping grounds, @Keplers, to talk about THE OPTIMIST with @CadeMetz, whose book on AI, Genius Makers was a great help to me in my early research. Thanks to all who came out!

keachhagey's tweet image. So much fun to return to my old stomping grounds, @Keplers, to talk about THE OPTIMIST with @CadeMetz, whose book on AI, Genius Makers was a great help to me in my early research. Thanks to all who came out!

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keachhagey@keachhagey · 9 h

Everyone's complaining about egg price inflation, but now one guy costs what you could get an Instagram for in 2013

CChubby♨️@kimmonismus · 16 h

Holy moly, Mark Zucker asked Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta, reportedly offering up to $1 billion dollars via WSJ

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keachhagey@keachhagey · 14 h

Thanks, @happyhappyhenri!

HHenri 📖@happyhappyhenri · Jul 20

There’s a few brilliant tech biogs out recently: “The Thinking Machine” about Jensen Huang and Nvidia by @stephenwitt “The Optimist” about Sam Altman and OpenAI by @keachhagey “The Nvidia Way” about the rise of Nvidia by @firstadopter “No Rules Rules” by @reedhastings and…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · 14 h

Thanks, @ericmayanja_ !

EEric@ericmayanja_ · 21 h

Just finished @keachhagey’s book on Sam Altman and yeah these are some of my takeaways from her gem of a book!

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Berber Jin@berber_jin1 · Jul 19

We have the definitive story on Dan Gross leaving SSI for Meta, the Windsurf saga, and a secret conversation between Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen—all in our epic weekend read about the AI talent wars w/ @keachhagey @bzcohen wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jul 18

With his nemesis, Elon Musk, out of the picture, Sam Altman has forged closer ties with President Trump, dining with the president at his private golf club and declaring he has left the Democratic Party. w/@DanaMattioli @jdawsey1 wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al… via @WSJ

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jul 18

I am so proud of my brave, brilliant colleagues @khadeeja_safdar and @joe_palazzolo, proud to live in a country where the founders put freedom of speech in the very first amendment, and proud to work at The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/trump… via @WSJ

keachhagey's tweet card. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jul 8

Thanks, @snowballist!

SSnowball49@snowballist · Jul 7

The Optimist by @keachhagey deserves a spot on the shelf alongside other great books like @firstadopter’s The Nvidia Way, @StevenLevy’s In the Plex, and @WalterIsaacson’s Steve Jobs. One lingering question, though, is why didn’t @ilyasut and @miramurati just join Anthropic like…

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Robert Daugherty@Daugherty_Twit · Jul 3

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Meghan Bobrowsky@MeghanBobrowsky · Jun 26

Scoop: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spox confirmed the three have left the company.

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 21

Thanks, @michaelkpate!

MMichael K Pate@michaelkpate · Jun 21

I just finished this. I highly recommend. I understand many things I thought I understood much better now, and I learned about many things I had no idea.

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 21

Excited to see the THE OPTIMIST on the cover of this weekend's New York Times Book Review.

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 18

Pope Leo is making the potential threat of AI to humanity a signature issue—challenging a tech sector that has spent years trying to cultivate the Vatican as an ally w/ @margheritamvs @drewhenshaw @EmilyGlazer wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-l… via @WSJ

keachhagey's tweet card. The new pope is making artificial intelligence a signature issue—but Silicon Valley is trying to win him over.

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 16

Thanks, alfxad!

AAlfaxad@alfxad · Jun 14

just finished reading the optimist (authored by keach hagey), it’s an insightful book about what has led up to this very moment and what the future might look like. i highly recommend reading it.

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 6

Excited that Amazon has named THE OPTIMIST the #3 best business and leadership book of 2025 so far: amazon.com/b/?_encoding=U…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 5

The Economist has named The Optimist one of the 40 best books published so far this year: economist.com/culture/2025/0…

keachhagey's tweet card. When you lie down by the pool this summer, pick up one of these titles

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 4

Bay Area folks, I’m coming out next Tuesday to do a book talk at Kepler’s with the great @CadeMetz. Get tickets here: keplers.org/upcoming-event…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · May 22

Fun talking to @jimsciutto at @CNN about Sam Altman, Jony Ive, OpenAI and THE OPTIMIST video.snapstream.net/Play/9Ip3w8nFX…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · May 22

Thanks, @RichardWaters, for the great review of THE OPTIMIST in the Financial Times! “Timely and myth-busting” — Richard Waters, Financial Times ft.com/content/1721a7…

keachhagey's tweet card. Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris

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keachhagey@keachhagey · May 22

Thanks, @ShakeelHashim, for the thoughtful review of THE OPTIMIST: “The Optimist is the slimmer volume but the heavier hitter, a zippy work that serves not just as a biography of Altman, but also a miniature history of the past twenty years of tech. If you want to understand the…

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