I can’t hear Bjork’s Army of Me without thinking of Michel Gondry’s shiny mechanical teeth. youtu.be/jPeheoBa2_Y?...

One of my favorite stories of 2025 came after seeing a debate on Hacker News questioning if so-called "AI tarpits" were effective. I wanted to know 1) if they actually were disrupting AI crawlers (they were) and 2) how quickly new traps could be built (within days) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Without a massive undertaking to undo moves that critics have said undermined both US science and trust in it, Trump’s dreams of launching AI models that would propel a million moonshots could go down in history as merely hype.

Made this holiday season about homemade gifts for my family, stitching my fingers off making patches and dolls.

In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal cited a study estimating that “electricity prices have increased by as much as 267 percent in the past five years” in “areas located near significant data center activity.”

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

When Alli told me that my history of child marriage story was the first time The New Yorker shared a Teen Vogue story on social media, I figured I could quit journalism, that is enough from me. The skill and extreme care of every editor I worked with there cannot be overstated.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Andy Stone told me that any kids uncomfortable with chatbot outputs can report the chatbot the same way they would a predator. But Meta child safety whistleblower Arturo Bejar says there are easy ways Meta won't implement to actually monitor how many kids receive creepy outputs.

I also went through legal docs and old tweets, so you don't have to, which may be helpful to anyone trying to read through the lines of Elon Musk and Sam Altman's bubbling AI feud.

Seems like a good time to re-up this story where I talked to Cory Doctorow and one of Meta's only early Facebook rivals about Meta's (failing) plan to use AI friends to keep users locked into its apps: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Wherein I explain that if YouTube's AI gets a user's age wrong, it will be their burden to prove how old they are, with very few privacy protections for the data collected -- and that is creepy and inhibiting and risky arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I had planned to do a live tariff talk tomorrow with CTA, but CTA's expert, for unforeseeable reasons, had to pull out, so now I'm afraid the world must wait until whenever chip tariffs drop (maybe next week) for me to do another deep dive. Very sorry for the short notice!

Join me Thursday to talk chip tariffs:

Dozens of xAI employees expressed concerns—and many objected—when asked to record videos of their facial expressions, according to a new report.

Moraine Hills State Park lived up to the hype and gifted me and my dog our first Illinois beaver sighting for her 8th birthday.