AI NEWS PAGE DOSSIER
Enterprise tech → Wired infrastructure → The New York Times → Genius Makers: a career following AI into the mainstream.
Metz moved from the infrastructure guts of the internet into the technologies being built on top of them: first editing and reporting Wired's enterprise beat, then covering emerging technology at The New York Times, writing a history of the deep-learning boom, and eventually taking over a dedicated AI beat on the Science desk.
Sep 2011
As Wired Enterprise editor, Metz introduced a beat focused on the data centers, cloud systems, companies, and infrastructure driving the next generation of computing.
RECEIPTS: WIREDreported
2017
Metz joined The New York Times in 2017 to cover emerging technologies, describing the beat as artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and the people building them.
RECEIPTS: Duke Universityreported
Mar 16, 2021
Dutton published Genius Makers, Metz's reported history of the researchers, labs, executives, and money that pushed modern artificial intelligence from the academic margins into Silicon Valley.
RECEIPTS: Penguin Random Housereported
2024
The New York Times Company says Metz led the Times investigation into how OpenAI, Google, and Meta gathered data from across the internet to train their AI systems.
RECEIPTS: The New York Times Company via PublicNowreported
Aug 12, 2026
The New York Times moved Metz to the Science desk to inaugurate a dedicated artificial-intelligence beat, explicitly framing AI itself as a major scientific development to be covered alongside its achievements, failures, and mysteries.
RECEIPTS: The New York Times Company via PublicNowreported