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AI Chat Daily breaks news about artificial intelligence companies, research labs, and the people building and deploying AI. If you know something we should, here's how to reach us — on the record, on background, or anonymously.

Before you send

A few things worth knowing before you hit send on a sensitive tip:

  • Do not use your employer's devices or networks. Company laptops, phones, VPNs, corporate Wi-Fi, email, Slack, Teams, and cloud storage can all be monitored and logged — many are, by default. Reach us from a personal device on a home or public network.
  • Be mindful of what identifies you. Screenshots can carry usernames in the corner. PDFs and Word docs embed the author's name in their metadata. Photos from phones include GPS. If you want to be anonymous, scrub or crop these before sending, and tell us if you need help.
  • Set your terms up front. Say whether you want to be quoted by name, described generically ("an engineer at the company"), or not mentioned at all. We will honor the terms you set; if we need to renegotiate we will come back to you first.

Email

The fastest way to reach us: hello@aichatdaily.com. Attach documents, screenshots, or links. A short summary in the body of the email helps us understand the tip quickly.

Email is not end-to-end encrypted. For tips where encrypted messaging matters, see the next section.

Signal

Signal is our preferred channel for sensitive tips. It's free, open-source, end-to-end encrypted, and widely used by journalists and sources. Install Signal on a personal phone, then email hello@aichatdaily.com asking for a Signal handoff. We will respond with a Signal number and move the conversation off email before any sensitive details are shared. We do not publish a public Signal number directly because scraping it leads to a tidal wave of noise.

Postal mail

For sources who prefer physical documents and an air gap, mailed packages are welcome. We do not publish our mailing address directly for the same reason we do not publish our Signal number; email and ask and we will share the address for mail drops. Do not use a return address you want associated with the tip.

Encrypted email (PGP)

If you use PGP, we can receive encrypted email. Request the current public key by email — we rotate keys periodically, so always ask for a fresh one rather than relying on an older one you may have cached.

How we handle sources

  • We do not publish a source's identity without their explicit permission. If you ask to be anonymous, you stay anonymous.
  • We keep notes, screenshots, and source materials in access-controlled storage separated from our public systems. We do not upload unpublished source materials to third-party AI services.
  • We will not turn over unpublished material to any party — law enforcement or otherwise — without exhausting our legal options, which includes our right to challenge subpoenas in court under the relevant reporter's-privilege statutes.
  • Verification comes from independent confirmation, not from repeating a single source. Even with good documents, we cross-check.

What makes a great tip

Any of the following make our job dramatically easier:

  • Documents. Internal memos, decks, slack threads, emails, meeting recordings, policy documents, contracts, and code.
  • Specifics. Names, dates, dollar amounts, product SKUs, version numbers, customer names, internal project codenames.
  • Context. Why does this matter? Who else knows? What are the company's public statements, and how do they differ from what's actually happening?
  • Pointers. Who else could corroborate this? A public filing, a press release, a tweet — anything that helps us ground the claim.

"I heard someone say" tips are welcome as a starting point, but they take longer for us to corroborate. The more anchored the tip is in primary material, the faster we can move on it.

What we do with tips

We read every tip. We cannot reply to every tip — the inbox is busy — but if we decide to pursue your story we will come back to you to confirm details and agree on how you'll be quoted (or not quoted). If we decide not to pursue it, we may still file it away for future reference: patterns often emerge from multiple tips over time.

What we won't do

  • Publish rumors or claims we cannot verify.
  • Break a source's anonymity to get a story over the line.
  • Pay for information. We do not compensate sources for tips.
  • Pass tips to other journalists, investors, competitors, or recruiters.

Questions about a tip you've already sent

It is completely normal for us to go quiet for a few days on a tip we're working through. If you've heard nothing in a week and want to check in, reply on the same thread you started. Please do not post on social media or elsewhere about the tip — public signaling makes the eventual story much harder to report cleanly.