@hugolowell

Trump White House newsletter anchor @WIRED. Email: [email protected]

 Washington, DC
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Joined May 2014
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Anissa Gardizy
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SCOOP: Anthropic's latest draft S-1 documents show financials results for the first half of the year, gigantic spending plans for the future, and a laundry list of risk factors. - Anthropic recorded a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of the year, tied to accounting adjustments related to previous financings - Anthropic is set to spend >$600 billion on compute in the coming years, inclusive of cloud agreements and chip leases. More in @WSJ:
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@WIREDOct 19
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then. buff.ly/Pt5m13Y

How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.

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Jeremy Barr
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if you're in line for the white house press sec job, STAY IN LINE
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Kathryn Watson
@kathrynw5Oct 15
Fox News poll: Top concerns: 1. Corruption in government 2. Inflation and high prices 3. Gas prices
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NEW @WIRED: Federal prosecutors have been weighing a possible perjury and obstruction case against Cassidy Hutchinson — though charges likely will not come until at least after the midterms, per people familiar Prosecutors have been comparing Hutchinson’s J6C transcripts against her Jack Smith transcript, and whether her testimony led to probes against others wired.com/story/the-doj-is-w…

The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction-of-justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

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US won't attack Iran at any point before the midterm elections, Trump says
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NEW @WIRED: Elon Musk's America PAC is focusing its war chest on key Senate races this cycle -- overall spending 3 times as much on digital ads and mailers hitting Dems as defending GOP candidates amid cratering support for Trump's record wired.com/story/elon-musks-a…

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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In the Texas Senate race, America PAC to date has spent $9.4M on ads opposing James Talarico vs $1.8M defending Ken Paxton. Lopsided spending here is perhaps the least surprising of all the close Senate contests given Paxton's baggage --
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@WIREDOct 7
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. buff.ly/q0P4LIo

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily

To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.

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Will Steakin
@wsteaksOct 6
Pretty unique ad
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@hugolowellOct 6
SCOOP @WIRED: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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SCOOP @WIRED: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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Video intersperses clips of Rogers saying “you can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated” when he was House Intel chair in 2013. El-Sayed campaign also tells me there will be a billboard campaign in Michigan wired.com/story/mike-rogers-…

‘Mike Rogers Is Watching You’: New Ad Blitz From Abdul El-Sayed Attacks Surveillance Support

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1Oct 2
Trump claimed to TIME that Secret Service officials have encouraged him to replace the current Oval Office. "'Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we'll build a new one, sir,'" said Trump, quoting a Secret Service official. "I said, 'My ass, you can't build a new one. This is a special place.'"
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Jake Sherman
@JakeShermanSep 30
Very interesting. If Congress isn't on the brink of AI regulation, then i guess there's no need to dump all this money into PACs and races. but that seems to be a short-term play. eventually trump will be gone and Congress will do something.
Teddy Schleifer
@teddyschleiferSep 30
NEWS. More AI fallout ahead of the midterms. Greg Brockman, the OpenAI co-founder, is no longer making the second $25 million donation promised to the super PAC Leading the Future. Scoop with @MikeIsaac. nytimes.com/2026/09/30/techn…

OpenAI Executive Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.

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NEW @WIRED: Trump aides privately acknowledge that national polling is remarkably bad, and have started to contemplate possibly losing both chambers, per people familiar — even as they argue individual House races are not as negative wired.com/story/the-white-ho…

The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms

President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.

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David Gura@davidguraSep 30
“United States” is spelled incorrectly on the White House’s agreement with AI executives:
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Trump spoke to reporters for a few minutes after today’s lunch. Asked if there will be any binding AI rules after today’s lunch, he tells me he plans to sign an EO this evening to re-name AI “super intelligence” and says “there was a lot of commonality in this room.” He also tells reporters that “there’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation” and reiterates that the government has regulation via the DOJ.
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NEW: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his wife had dinner at the White House last night after TRUMP reached out with the offer, per people familiar Amodei had already confirmed his attendance at the White House AI execs meeting happening tomorrow before he dined with the president
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TRUMP was happy with the dinner where they discussed AI matters generally But people familiar with dynamics don’t expect this to carry over to the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth and Emil Michael have been sharply critical of Amodei — i.e. “Dario’s still got a Hegseth problem”
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