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Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter, The Verge

Search every verified Hayden Field interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge, has been a frequent guest on The Verge's podcasts and other programs over the past two months, discussing developments in the AI industry. On the Decoder podcast, she analyzed the competitive landscape of consumer AI agents, comparing Meta's free Muse with OpenAI's paid Dots. She said that Meta may have an advantage in consumer distribution, while OpenAI appears to be focusing more on enterprise use cases. She also discussed OpenAI's executive changes, saying that co-founder Greg Brockman has consolidated significant power over day-to-day operations, and that the company's upcoming IPO is likely driving many of the recent C-suite departures. Field has also commented on AI safety concerns, appearing on NY1's Inside City Hall and The Vergecast to discuss recent warnings from AI researchers and executives. She said that she has seen similar letters and concerns throughout her seven years covering AI, and that the recent viral resignation from an Anthropic researcher was not unprecedented. She described the situation as a "prisoner's dilemma" among AI labs, noting that while some are calling for a slowdown, there is a lack of concrete regulation. She also participated in a Vergecast segment judging user-submitted "vibe coding" projects, where she expressed interest in a tool that could help reporters search past interview transcripts.

Recent appearances

  • How Meta got ahead of OpenAI on AI agents | Decoder

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge

    My guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we're discussing the new wave of consumer friendly AI agents. AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now, but the launch of Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and XAI’s Grok Bot has brought easy to use agents to millions. Muse, notably, is free, while Dots is not, and you’ll hear Hayden and me get into why Meta, which still doesn't have a frontier model of its own, might have a meaningful edge here because it's much better at making and distributing consumer products. And wrapped up in this heated agent race are a lot of…

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  • A billion fake dollars are at stake in our first vibe-coding competition | The Vergecast

    October 05, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Welcome to the Bear Lair!* (No, it’s nothing like that other show.) As we continue to explore the world of AI tools and vibe coding, we invited a few enterprising Vergecast fans to share their projects — and we invited The Verge’s Hayden Field to judge them with us. We’ll see what people are working on, and whether any of them will make us fabulously wealthy. *We came up with this name before we became aware that someone else thought of it first... no relation to the APTNtv show Bears' Lair! Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vote Vergecast: Best Technology Podcast - https://bit.ly/3VGqL1T…

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  • Dots are OpenAI's cute lil guys | The Vergecast

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Jolly's got new competition: OpenAI just launched its competitor to Muse and Grok Bot. It's called Dots, and the headline feature is that it's also cute, with fuzzy lil triangles and clouds and hearts that you can give access to your personal accounts to do things for you. The Verge's senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins guest host David Imel from San Francisco right after OpenAI's DevDay presentation. 00:00 Intro 00:41 90 Seconds on The Verge 04:49 What Are Dots 07:21 How Agents Differ 10:02 Specialist Enterprise Dots 15:44 Safety and Standards 18:44 Compute Limits and Pricing 20:03 Protest…

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  • Longtime AI reporter says companies' safety concerns are nothing new | Inside City Hall

    September 22, 2026 · 📺 NY1 and Spectrum News

    Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at the technology news site The Verge, has been on the beat for seven years. Referring to the recent concerns expressed by AI company CEOs, Field said on “Inside City Hall” that she’s “seen letters like this before” as some states, including New York, look to regulate the industry. #NY1 #NYC #News #ai -------- For more on this and the latest NYC news: http://specne.ws/NY1YT Watch live news: http://specne.ws/YTliveSN Get the Spectrum News App on all your favorite devices: http://specne.ws/GetSNApp2

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  • The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro's camera | The Vergecast

    September 18, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    This week's iPhone 18 Pro discourse made aperture a priority, but today on Vergecast we zoom out to talk about the state of smart phone photography at large. Executive editor Jake Kastrenakes, guest host David Imel and senior reviewer Allison Johnson get into manual controls, "buckets of photons," and Apple and Google's strategies on how to prove a picture you took is real. Then, senior AI reporter Hayden Field returns to The Vergecast, just a few new revelations of misaligned behavior since her last appearance. She breaks down who's calling for a slowdown, who's full steam ahead, and the pris…

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  • AGI is whatever you want it to be | The Vergecast

    September 04, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old Apple CEO Tim Cook, and to, most importantly, speculate on the format of next week's Apple keynote. We wrap things up with a super-special lightning round from the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and editor Dominic Preston each pick out the five most interesting g…

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  • OpenAI's executive exodus has one big winner | Decoder

    August 27, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

    Our guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re discussing some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and influence within the top ranks of the company as other senior leaders have left in rapid succession. So I wanted Hayden to break down for me what’s going on at OpenAI, and the increasingly important role Greg Brockman will play in its f…

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  • Does Google even want to win in AI? | Decoder

    August 13, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

    Our guest today is The Verge’s Hayden Field, and we’re discussing a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That's because last week, the company announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division. You can read these moves, and Google’s reaction, in a lot of different ways. So we really wanted to sit down with Hayden to dig into some of the smartest analysis we’ve seen this past week, and what we think is really going on here. #google #ai #deepmind #technology 0:00 - Cold Open: Is Google losing the AI race? 0:44 - Welcome…

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  • We share our vibe-coded websites | The Vergecast

    August 10, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    We've spent the last month vibe coding our own corners of the internet. The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes and Hayden Field join David to talk about their use of Gemini, Codex, and Claude Code to build 90s-themed personal websites, vegetable-sharing systems, and photo boards. It wasn't always easy, and we didn't get everything done, but with a little AI and a lot of prompting, we made it work. 0:00 Welcome Back To Vibe Coding 00:45 90 Seconds on the Verge 02:34 Meet The Vibe Coders 03:11 Jake and his Codex Struggles 05:28 Hayden Platform Hopping 08:38 Hayden’s Totally Awesome 90s Portfolio Site 12:…

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  • What Apple's OpenAI lawsuit is really about | Decoder

    July 23, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

    Today, we're talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI, and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. Hayden has been covering OpenAI for years now, and she also just talked to a bunch of lawyers who specialize in intellectual property and trade secret law to get a sense of how serious this case is. The answer is not entirely positive for OpenAI. This legal battle could also affect OpenAI’s hardware plans, its forthcoming IPO, and its already-damaged reputation. #OpenAI #AI #Technology 0:00 - Intro 0:57 – Welcom…

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  • The US is losing its lead in AI | The Vergecast

    July 20, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    Since the beginning of the AI revolution, a few companies have claimed to be building the best and most powerful AI models. All of them were American. More recently, a few Chinese companies seem to have caught up, shipping models that are much cheaper and maybe also just as good. The Verge's Hayden Field and Lauren Feiner join the show to explain how China made so much progress, the threat that progress represents to US companies and the US government, and what might happen next. We have new merch! Get yours here: https://bit.ly/3RCikCY 0:00 Intro 01:19 90 Seconds on The Verge 03:05 Is Chin…

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  • Our favorite tips for logging off | The Vergecast

    July 03, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

    For many of us in the US, it’s the beginning of a holiday weekend. So we figured we’d try and help you out. We grabbed a bunch of Verge staffers, and asked them all a simple question: How do you disconnect? We have ideas about Wi-Fi, about phone hygiene, about smartwatches, and much more. We’re certainly not here to tell you to ditch screens entirely, but... screen responsibly, you know? Send us your tips, and have a great summer vacation! 0:00 Vacation Disconnecting Setup 3:01 Hayden Friction and Notifications 6:14 Jen Camping and WiFi Off 9:42 Marina Let Phone Die 13:00 Meredith Library Dea…

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Notable quotes

“Only via enterprise. I think that's why they are pushing this so hard. We saw a ton of enterprise discussion, demo videos, customer feedback, tons of stuff at Dev Day, and that's why they're pushing this so hard because they can't keep up with Zuck on the consumer front, they just can't.”

“I think the more money and power you have at one of these companies, you get a little bit mentally farther away from what the average consumer wants. So let's say the average consumer does want an AI agent, which many of them don't as we know, but let's say they do. If they do, they're going to want it to be free or cheap, and they are going to want it to be safe to use without creeping them out too much. They're wil”

“They talked about the fact that, you know, this is going to be really secure, really private, really trustworthy. But I was chatting with Glenn Coats, um, the head of app platform at OpenAI in a one-on-one interview today, and he said that he thinks they're in a different position to Meta in that, um, they since they have 1.2 billion users, um, they want to launch something that doesn't make those types of mistakes. ”

“That's a great question and I think it's something that you know, people don't love to hear this, but it's not black and white. There's a lot of complex things at play here and as someone who's been watching this issue for 7 years, I've noticed that it kind of goes down the middle here. I mean, this is something people have been concerned about for many years. The people building this technology really do worry about”

“It's absolutely a prisoner's dilemma because even if they do agree, the second one of them breaks it, they're all going to race and they may all be secretly breaking it like you said at the same time. The problem with this whole situation is they're just these are just tweets, you know, like they're just saying, 'Yeah, he's right.' Which is like a great PR move... Even pacing the frontier already is super vague. I me”

“They absolutely should be getting in trouble and I think that the dog analogy is one I hear a lot. It's like, yeah, these companies built these systems. They're responsible for them. And the fact that they are saying, 'Oh, we're in control of this stuff. Trust us with your enterprise AI. Trust us with these large-scale models that are trained to help with or flag vulnerabilities in cyber security on large infrastruct”

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