Bylines in NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Literary Hub. Wrote THE BLUE PERIOD, a novel https://xitter.gq/t.co/6TQcDQckuS & TAKERS MAD, an Audible drama https://xitter.gq/t.co/Oh2OnVu5nF
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Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
During Holy Week, a priest visited a Ukrainian drone unit near Zaporizhzhia. He prayed with the combatants, then sprinkled holy water on a strike drone before it flew against Russian lines. It was St. Augustine's conundrum in its newest form.
My new piece with Tony Pfaff in @ForeignPolicy on @Pontifex, autonomous weapons, and why just war theory needs a rethink, not retirement. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/14…
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
A great read from @LukeJKummer and @keachhagey.
That's quite a trajectory for Dario Amodei's wife. As Traffic tells us in Dear Mr. Fantasy, "If it was a straight line you had, we wouldn't have known you all these years." Of course, we wouldn't have known her at all without such great reporting.
The internet has been so scrubbed of references to Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark, that if you Google her, you get a picture of his sister instead. Not even Claude can say if he’s married.
But she has been an influential force in his career, introducing him to Eric Schmidt, one of Anthropic’s first investors, with whom she had previously been in a three-year relationship, and serving as a key sounding board and networker.
To get to this point, she overcame much: dropping out of college, a brief early marriage when she was 20 to a man more than 40 years her senior, a bankruptcy and an entrepreneurial path that included trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to invest in her “revolutionary porn company.”
w/ @LukeJKummer
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
The internet has been so scrubbed of references to Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark, that if you Google her, you get a picture of his sister instead. Not even Claude can say if he’s married.
But she has been an influential force in his career, introducing him to Eric Schmidt, one of Anthropic’s first investors, with whom she had previously been in a three-year relationship, and serving as a key sounding board and networker.
To get to this point, she overcame much: dropping out of college, a brief early marriage when she was 20 to a man more than 40 years her senior, a bankruptcy and an entrepreneurial path that included trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to invest in her “revolutionary porn company.”
w/ @LukeJKummer
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
The internet has been so scrubbed of references to Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark, that if you Google her, you get a picture of his sister instead. Not even Claude can say if he’s married.
But she has been an influential force in his career, introducing him to Eric Schmidt, one of Anthropic’s first investors, with whom she had previously been in a three-year relationship, and serving as a key sounding board and networker.
To get to this point, she overcame much: dropping out of college, a brief early marriage when she was 20 to a man more than 40 years her senior, a bankruptcy and an entrepreneurial path that included trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to invest in her “revolutionary porn company.”
w/ @LukeJKummer
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
Thanks, @LukeJKummer! I can't believe how lucky I am to get to work with someone of your talent. There is no one more dogged or creative.
THE OPTIMIST: Sam Altman, OpenAI & the Race to Invent the Future by @WSJ's @keachhagey lands 5/20. I was honored to help research as she wrote a modern epic & pried open the head of one of today's most consequential figures. Have a look—it's wild! a.co/d/fBWXfGO @wwnorton
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
Great chatting with @mcalderone @radhikajones and Claire Howorth of @VanityFair about Sam Altman and THE OPTIMIST, which comes out May 20.
We had a great conversation with @keachhagey about her new book on Sam Altman — his political views and ambitions, feuds and deals, and the future of AI
vanityfair.com/news/story/in…
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Completely speechless that THE OPTIMIST is an Amazon Top Ten Editor’s Pick for May
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Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
Sam Altman did not just explore a run for California governor. He told people he was also considering running for president.
Details in an excerpt from my forthcoming book, THE OPTIMIST, out today in Vanity Fair: vanityfair.com/news/story/ex…
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
Less than a week before Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, his mentor Peter Thiel gave him a warning over dinner: “the AI safety people” were going to “destroy” OpenAI. Altman, ever the optimist, shrugged it off.
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
In an excerpt from THE OPTIMIST, my forthcoming biography of Sam Altman, I explain how they lost trust and came to the decision that Altman had to go: wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-sto…
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
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/978132407…
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
This short 4:30-minute video is all you need to know about the Assad regime and the current Syrian euphoria to see this regime gone.
With clearer subtitles.
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
When OpenAI's team told director Helen Toner the board's actions could trigger the company's collapse, she replied, “That would actually be consistent with the mission."
Behind the scenes of the OpenAI saga w/ @dseetharaman @berber_jin1
wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firin… via @WSJ
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
I’m an incarcerated journalist. Today Securus, a predatory prison communication co, silenced journalists. With no warning they deleted all drafts of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts. Articles. Everything gone. We’re no longer able to save drafts. Now near impossible to write.
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muskogeephoenix.com/columns/… | FOOD BY THE BOOK: Trip down memory lane with local author
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
How many times as a reporter have I randomly knocked on someone’s door or pulled into a wrong driveway? I never thought about getting shot…#timestheyareachanging
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
Three and a half years after a group of prison guards allegedly beat an inmate to death, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office has yet to complete its investigation.
newjerseymonitor.com/2023/04…
Luke Jerod Kummer retweeted
On Thursday, March 2nd, at 12:30pm Loyola’s Center for Editing & Publishing will be hosting a talk by alumnus @LukeJKummer! Join us in Bobet 100 for a lunch conversation about the professional world of editing and publishing.
