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Writing at https://t.co/m6EtO61q8w. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die). TV host
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Ashlee Vance is not just the Musk biographer, he is a builder of new reporting platforms that are breaking stories right now through his Core Memory venture. In April 2026 he published a headline interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on the Great Reset at OpenAI, tackling the power, politics, and safety questions everyone in tech and policy is arguing about today.
He also dropped an exclusive inside look at Tesla’s Semi factory on April 8, offering rare on the ground insight into the push to electrify heavy freight and what it means for the economy and climate policy this year. Putting that real time reporting in front of Mehdi Hasan’s sharp audience, which was built to mix humor with serious stakes, is exactly the kind of conversation that can shape how the public and lawmakers respond this week, not months from now.
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Apr 29, 2026
On April 23, 2026, Sam Altman used Ashlee Vance's Core Memory podcast to publicly accuse Anthropic of "fear-based marketing" — making Vance one of the most sought-after interviewers in tech journalism right now, and a natural fit for Mehdi's format of serious topics with sharp wi…On April 23, 2026, Sam Altman used Ashlee Vance's Core Memory podcast to publicly accuse Anthropic of "fear-based marketing" — making Vance one of the most sought-after interviewers in tech journalism right now, and a natural fit for Mehdi's format of serious topics with sharp wit.
Apr 29, 2026
A nomination is live for Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) — 2x NYT-bestselling author, filmmaker, and founder of Core Memory — to appear on We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends, Zeteo's podcast where funny people talk about serious things.
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Ashlee produced a Netflix documentary on Bryan Johnson's anti-aging obsession and is now shooting a doc on brain-computer interfaces — two frontiers that Mehdi's politically sharp audience will want to hear critiqued, not just celebrated. Who funds this science, and who benefits?
You quit a major institution to build Core Memory because you believe tech journalism is too hostile to its subjects — but isn't 'optimistic curiosity' toward people with unprecedented wealth and political power just a more polished form of access journalism?
Ashlee's stated editorial philosophy at Core Memory is friendlier to tech founders than the mainstream press. Mehdi, who built Zeteo explicitly to be adversarial toward power, is the perfect host to make that tension explicit rather than letting it slide.
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