For @wired.com subscribers (!!): We're hanging out on the internet next week to answer your questions about the future of EVs. Come throw some tough ones our way: www.wired.com/story/livest...

OpenAI removed GPT-4o from its app today despite opposition from the version's most loyal fans. Many of them see their 4o chatbot as romantic companions, and they are grieving the loss and publicly revolting against the company. I talked to a group in China on how they are faring and fighting.

Habeas petitions have skyrocketed in the past few months as more people are in detention than ever and detainees arent being given bond hearings. At the MN-USAO, it’s made caseloads explode: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

That Super Bowl halftime show was beyond incredible, and fun. Here’s the story of how it came together, complete with beautiful photos from @d-jacks.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about the game’s gadgets. www.wired.com/story/the-sh...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Here's our 25-min video news-documentary version of the story of Red Bull, the whistleblower who leaked me the secrets of a crypto scam compound while trapped as a forced laborer inside it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcN... Hope you'll watch and consider the immense scale of this global crisis.

NEW: Google’s “Auto Browse” AI tool includes a warning that attributes responsibility to users for the bot’s actions. “Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads a disclaimer on the demo version. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions during tasks.” www.wired.com/story/google...

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

A hard but important read from @mmolteni.bsky.social about Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was shot by federal agents in Minneapolis www.statnews.com/2026/01/26/a...

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

I regret to inform you that Elon Musk has once again said a bunch of stuff that won't happen. from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social

Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits. www.wired.com/story/chines...

Beyond excited to have @wired.com's new magazine entirely dedicated to one of the biggest issues in our lives: how to understand China's rise and rise and rise. Humanoid robots, EV batteries, cleansing crystals, AI boyfriends, gene-editing... Something made in China is already changing your life.

Today in beautiful nightmares published on wired.com www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Arizona is now investigating X over the creation and distribution of "potentially illegal and harmful content, including child sexual abuse imagery" The AG's announcement links to WIRED's reporting about Grok Imagine videos, by me and @regret.bsky.social WIRED story: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring a US-based science editor. Come work with me and the wonderful @mollytaft.com: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

WIRED Security has always had the very earnest, kind of dopey unofficial tagline “stay safe out there” and it’s more apt than ever right now www.wired.com/story/what-t...

NEW: Gov Hochul's office confirms to @wired.com that she will propose tomorrow new legislation allowing limited autonomous vehicle pilots in New York State in cities that *aren't* NYC If the bill passes, it would be a W for AV companies in one of the biggest states www.wired.com/story/propos...

Merry Christmas, may all those cool gifts you got be fixable far into the future www.wired.com/story/expire...

ALL YOUR FAULT?: Ford is killing the all-electric F-150 due to weak demand and says its now "following the consumer" with yet another shift in its EV manufacturing plans. @aarianmarshall.bsky.social has the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ford-k...

NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement. At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.

Scoop: Provisions of the NDAA that would ensure military members’ right to repair their own equipment are set to be removed from the funding act, replaced by language that will require the military to pay subscription fees to defense contractors via “data-as-a-service.” www.wired.com/story/subscr...

I wrote this piece because I only learned about pelvic floors a few years ago, despite having had one all my life. And then it turned out to be where I store all my issues. And then that turned out to be true for a lot of people www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

In China, parents are buying smartwatches for children as young as five, connecting them to a digital world that blends socializing with fierce competition. www.wired.com/story/kids-i...

A statement from Wired's Conde Union Members

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Seems normal and fine. from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social

Preorders are open now for the Also TM-B ebike, which starts at $4,000. It ships next year.

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

What's it like to own a Cybertruck in the year 2025? We talked to owners about their most controversial purchase and why they (still) love it: www.wired.com/story/owning...

Wrote about the unsettling year that federal air safety employees are having. They say the skies are safe, but the shutdown, and how the gov might react, is creating more stress “It feels as if they want us to be afraid, but I’m just angry,” one FAA worker told me www.wired.com/story/shutdo...

NEW: Everything's... fine... @aarianmarshall.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/shutdo...

"Labubu has become the de facto face of [China's] growing soft power, even if Pop Mart would rather distance itself from geopolitics" via @zeyiyang.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/labubu...

Experts told me Tesla has gotten better at monitoring the behavior of drivers using FSD (S), which can't actually drive by itself But amidst Tesla's Big Pivot to autonomy and robotics, it seems to be pushing drivers to use the feature exactly when they shouldn't www.wired.com/story/story/...

How federal workers experienced the DOGE-ification of the government—n their own words We spoke to over 200 www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

today the @wired.com mural in bushwick they’re working on zuck dog leg and sam altman dog manicure so tag us if u see us

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

“It's pretty indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular the types that are very much into irony posting and edgelord humor," says extremism researcher @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social With @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

Videos of Charlie Kirk being shot spread like wildfire across social platforms yesterday -- and many are still up. This is the post-content moderation world we now live in: www.wired.com/story/charli...

In which two @wired.com writers discover that sporting an AI wearable "friend" gets you bullied by people AND machines via @kylierobison.com + @boone.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

A real bummer of a read about what happens when an under-regulated surrogacy industry collides with the scary realities of childbirth and a vengeful venture capitalist with plenty of expendable cash www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

In this week's Made in China newsletter: at China's flagship AI summit WAIC, the vibe was totally different from Trump’s America-first, regulation-light vision for AI. Beijing is pitching itself as the world leader of AI safety regulation. WIRED's @willknight.bsky.social reports from Shanghai:

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —