So this week in an effort to raise money for the rapidly declining Twitter corporation, Elon Musk decided to auction off office furniture.

Basically everything that was not bolted down at headquarters, which he may not even be paying rent at, you could have bid on if you wanted a piece of Twitter history in your own home, which who doesn't?

Who doesn't? I know it's an online auction and it's not actually happening this way, but I just love the idea of like Elon standing on a stage and doing like the auctioneer call.

Like, going, what's going twice? I got a, I got a Herman Miller office chair, 25, give me 25, give me 30, give me 35.

Who wants a pizza oven in the shape of a bird?

I'm Kevin News, tech columnist at The New York Times. I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

This week an update on the these chambolic state of Elon Musk's empire. We talked to one of the artists suing the makers of AI image generating software.

And a cautionary tale about what happens when AI becomes a reporter.

Casey, big week for you this week, you have a story in this week's edition of New York magazine. You and Zoe Schiffer and Alex Heath from the verge wrote the story.

The cover story this week called extremely hardcore, which is sort of I would say it's it's fair to call it a compendium of some of the best reporting and some unreported details that you and Zoe and Alex have had about Twitter under the Elon Musk regime.

So I want to get into it. But first.

Oh, okay, you printed the thing out. I printed it out.

Love that. We love to see a story in print. You almost never do these days. This is how you know a millennial loves you.

So you're willing to print out your story. Right. Well, because the first thing is he means you actually have to find a printer which no millennial has no home.

Exactly. Well, I do. And I printed this out. And you know, maybe I'm going to print out all your work. Maybe every platformer.

Edition, I print out and take copious notes on. Please do. I did take some notes on this. And I wanted to just run them by you for your reaction.

And I hope the notes are like, um, like this is boring. Get rid of this. Move this down. Who cares?

No, these, this is like a reading experience that I want for every piece, which is that I get to take notes and then like immediately grill the author about everything in the piece.

So it's a great story. It's very long. And it traces the last three or four months of Twitter's history from the moment that Elon Musk, you know, showed up with a kitchen sink in his hands.

At Twitter's headquarters through all of the disasters and drama that have unfolded, including this incredible scene at the Twitter Halloween party.

Just tell us about that scene. Yeah. Well, so one of the most cinematic elements of the entire story is that the day that Elon actually ruled in to take over the company was the day of the Twitter employee Halloween party.

And this was no ordinary Halloween party. This wasn't just like, you know, a Jack a lantern full of Reese's pieces on the conference table. They had hired entertainers, employees had brought their families.

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