- Senior AI Reporter, The Verge1
Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge, leading coverage of AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, and reporting on how AI tools are used, their effects on society, and how regulators respond. Before The Verge, Hayden Field was the AI beat reporter at CNBC. Hayden Field's work has also appeared in MIT Technology Review and Wired UK.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Senior AI Reporter
- Company
- The Verge
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Teaching and writing
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 3
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Career
Field was an AI beat reporter on CNBC's technology team, covering artificial intelligence with a focus on the industry's shifting power dynamics and its real-world implications. CNBC's author page also lists earlier bylines in MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, Fortune, Digital Trends, Morning Brew, and Entrepreneur.2
Field is now the senior AI reporter at The Verge. The Verge's author page describes Field's CNBC coverage as including competition among AI companies, concerns raised by employees at large AI developers, and Federal Trade Commission inquiries into tech companies.1
Coverage
At The Verge, Field covers the major AI developers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, along with how AI tools are used, their effects on society, and how regulators respond. Recent stories on Field's author page examine consumer AI agents and their privacy promises, AI hardware companions, OpenAI's developer conference, and AI's effect on cybersecurity.13
Work and contributions
AI reporting at The Verge Show, channel or publication
Reports on AI companies, how AI tools are used, their societal implications, and how regulators respond.1
AI reporting at CNBC Show, channel or publication
Covered artificial intelligence for CNBC's technology team, focusing on the industry's shifting power dynamics and the technology's real-world implications.2
Timeline
Other documented roles
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Where they work
- The Verge 3 people in the wiki
Related people
- David PierceAlso at The Verge
- Nilay PatelAlso at The Verge
- Matthew BermanTeaching and writing
- Azeem AzharTeaching and writing
- Alex KantrowitzTeaching and writing
- Linus SebastianTeaching and writing
- Károly Zsolnai-FehérTeaching and writing
- Ian GoodfellowTeaching and writing
- Quinn NelsonTeaching and writing
- Zvi MowshowitzTeaching and writing
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026