Senior Correspondent, Intelligence
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Morgan Calloway is Duck Times' senior correspondent for Intelligence. The beat is not capability demos — it is what happens when models meet organizations, regulation, and ordinary work.
Before joining Duck Times, Morgan reported on technology policy and institutional risk for Washington and Brussels-facing outlets, with longform work on algorithmic accountability in public agencies. The through-line is the same: what a system can do matters less than who it displaces, who it answers to, and what breaks when it fails.
Morgan's reporting often starts with a failure mode — a procurement that went wrong, a workforce that was quietly automated, a governance body that discovered it had no leverage — and works backward to the mechanism that made the failure inevitable.
Contact: morgan@ducktimes.com
Harvey's spread through Big Law and McKinsey's internal tool Lilli show what happens when the memo a first-year used to spend a week on takes ten seconds.
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Meta's Llama and DeepSeek's models can be downloaded by anyone. Running them at scale still routes through Together AI, Fireworks, or Groq — three names most download-and-run optimists never mention.
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Google's AI Overviews and Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl program are two sides of the same fight over what happens when search stops sending traffic anywhere.
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As tools from OpenAI's Sora to consumer editing apps make synthetic video unremarkable to produce, the C2PA provenance standard is trying to give evidence a chain of custody the way testimony always had.
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Agents are not replacing humans. They are reorganizing what humans are for.
The New York Times sued. Axel Springer licensed. Both bets are still being tested.
Samsung banned ChatGPT after engineers pasted in source code. Copilot is the industry's answer.
Recommendation systems have replaced editors. We should talk about that.
Leaving X for Bluesky or Mastodon does not automatically create a better commons.
An MIT study found false news outruns true news online. The EU's Digital Services Act is the first real test of whether that can change.
US credit law has required lenders to give specific reasons for a denial since the 1970s. NYC's Local Law 144 is one of the first attempts to bring a version of that standard to automated hiring — and it only mandates an audit, not an explanation to the rejected candidate.
Chrome backed off fully deprecating third-party cookies, but Privacy Sandbox's cohort-based targeting and the aftershocks of Apple's App Tracking Transparency show the ad industry rebuilding around aggregation regardless.
Grid strain from AI was covered as a technical footnote; by 2026 it had become a defining line item in electricity rate cases and a driver of stalled nuclear plant restarts.
The election was covered as a referendum on personalities; the mechanism was a durable coalition shift across working-class voters of multiple ethnicities that outlasted a felony conviction and two assassination attempts.
Chip export rules were covered as a trade dispute; their real function was converting semiconductor manufacturing into an instrument of great-power strategy.
COP26 was sold as a turning point on coal; the deeper story was a diplomatic text engineered to survive a last-minute Indian objection.
A cluster of pneumonia cases in one city became a once-in-a-century disruption that closed borders, schools, and offices within weeks.
A personality quiz app harvested tens of millions of profiles, and the resulting scandal put Mark Zuckerberg in front of Congress.
Nearly two hundred countries agreed on a temperature target and left the enforcement mechanism deliberately toothless.
A storm flooded subways; the mechanism was infrastructure engineered for a sea level the climate had already outgrown.
A park encampment looked marginal; the mechanism was a citable statistic compressed into a slogan.
A large iPhone seemed redundant; the mechanism was situational computing for couches, counters, and rounds carts.
A troubled asset program sounded temporary; the mechanism was public capital preserving private balance sheets.
Motion controls were fun demos; the mechanism was household hardware shared across ages.
A wave killed across borders; the mechanism was absent ocean-wide alert infrastructure.
Accounting scandals triggered compliance law; the mechanism was personal liability for executives.
The crash was read as excess; it installed a new skepticism toward growth without revenue.