Editor-in-Chief and CCO, @Fortunemagazine. Former EIC @businessinsider. @NewhouseSU Advisory Board. Proudly married to @lombosco!

New York, NY
We can’t wait for you to start! Welcome, Morgan!
Thrilled to share that I’m joining @FortuneMagazine as a senior reporter on Monday ✨ I’ll help lead the newsroom’s finance coverage, reporting on banking and Wall Street’s most influential firms. (Some crypto will be in the mix, too!) Send tips to morgan.chittum@fortune.com
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In May, we broke the story about Microsoft’s super app. Today, the company finally unveiled its revamped Copilot.
After the AI boom took off about four years ago, Microsoft poured resources into winning both the consumer and enterprise sides of AI. With the unveiling of its Copilot AI “super app” Friday, the software giant has returned to basics, aiming its most capable technology at business customers.
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Despite widespread privacy concerns, Meta’s glasses are the most popular on the market. The company recently took Fortune's @SebasAHerrera inside a private demo room at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters to show off its growing family of smart glasses. bit.ly/46Kdjwj
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SCOOP: OpenAI is preparing to preview its latest cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-6 Cyber. It will also unveil a first-of-its-kind product to help customers deploy the model in a more secure, automated manner. fortune.com/2026/09/24/opena…
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What is “Effective Altruism” and how did this once obscure philosophical movement wind up in the crosshairs of some of the most powerful U.S. officials and their efforts to argue against AI regulation? @beafreyanolan joins #FortuneDaily to explain. bit.ly/3TNFhV5
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"Half of those we surveyed mentioned The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, and The New York Times, as essential, if not preferred (“Tier 1” publications in PR lingo)." 💪 And congrats to forever Fortuners @DelRey and @sharongoldman for being must-pitches too (I agree!) inc.com/lisa-bonos/inc-s-new…
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New media is insider media, and the traditional press that founders/investors still care about is prestige media like the WSJ and NYT - “look mom, I made it”
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We need to separate out effective altruism blaming from the actual facts. The actual facts according to everyone building this — EA affiliated or not (Elon, Demis, sam, Dario, satya)— is that AI models are very powerful, capable and unaligned, and we have a short window to fix it. The only people arguing the facts are investors and people who stand a lot to lose financially from a slowdown. This is insanely greedy and short sighted. Blaming EA doesn’t change the facts or gravity of the situation. You know what would tank the markets more than proceeding with caution? Tanking humanity.
🚨Scoop: A memo circulating at White House this week paint effectiv altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult. The memo, obtained by @Axios, places Amodei at the foundation of the movement… axios.com/2026/09/24/trump-a…
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OpenAI has had a vacant Chief Communications Officer role for 9 months. Jill Hazelbaker was eyed for it but is staying put at Uber. Kelly Sims from Thrive, OpenAI’s top investor, has been helping fill the void (and she’s hard to top!) @EmilyForlini with the scoop for @FortuneMagazine fortune.com/2026/09/23/opena…
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Bill Gates makes his boldest prediction yet saying, “AI is almost an evolutionary event”
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During Tim Cook’s tenure at the helm of Apple, its shares rose 2,000%, pushing the company’s market capitalization as high as $5 trillion in July and making Apple the second company ever to reach that milestone. bit.ly/4Ask8QC
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The next wave of AI I don’t think we are talking about enough is the surveillance state we are about to enter disguised as helpful consumer personal AI devices. Due to lack of a clear moat and a need for much more data, the frontier models need to try and own the next massive consumer device for AI that will replace androids and iPhones. Those devices will constantly stream for you as a “benefit” to be extremely helpful contextually. They will see, hear and record everything via pendants, jewelry, robots and glasses. All of that data in turn will be much more robust and infinite than the limited amount of fresh data the AI can currently guzzle to self improve via the internet. So basically, if you buy a future AI consumer device, you will be exchanging everything you see and do for the promise of a helpful assistant, while also giving surveillance permission, a moat, a new line of revenue and lots of fresh proprietary data to frontier models that need them. Worth it? 🤷‍♀️
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No matter how much changes in media, there’s nothing that replaces print. An awesome job by the @FortuneMagazine art department with this beautiful cover, which shows silhouettes of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook morphing into John Ternus.
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Awesome to have my John Ternus profile featured on the next cover of @FortuneMagazine. You can read the story at the link below.
Tim Cook made Apple a cash-flow king and one of the world’s supply chain titans. But as new CEO John Ternus takes the helm, the iPhone-maker is grappling with questions about its AI strategy. bit.ly/4cN44Pm
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Tim Cook made Apple a cash-flow king and one of the world’s supply chain titans. But as new CEO John Ternus takes the helm, the iPhone-maker is grappling with questions about its AI strategy. bit.ly/4cN44Pm
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he could have chosen an “easier life path.” On the latest episode of @Fortune500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry with Editor-in-Chief @ajs, Altman said his work at OpenAI will be the “most important work I ever touch.” bit.ly/4j5E2uy
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Consequences will both harden the product and reduce the press releases where companies brag about their product flaws.
.@SecScottBessent: "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI. The Hugging Face incident — that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents... These labs need to take responsibility for themselves."
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