Universal Studios apparently believes it doesn't need advance praise from fawning influencers for 'The Odyssey,' opting out of access screenings that have become the norm in Hollywood. Nobody is happier about it than professional film critics:

The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline. www.wired.com/story/openai...

That Dialog data exposure keeps getting worse. The records include personal information on a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer. That means date of birth, home address, mobile number, headshot photo, political leanings and more...

This is insane! What a story! Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's real estate exploits have kicked off a mass uprising that may take down Albania's government.

🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped

Agree on both

PSA: @timmarchman.bsky.social is just the best, and the brilliance behind so much fantastic @wired.com reporting. Listen to him talk all about it!

The Trump White House is sick of dealing with Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO. One admin official described him to @hugolowell.bsky.social as "a weirdo,"...which is particularly brutal given that we're talking about the TRUMP White House, notoriously a hub of totally normal people.

So proud that @wired.com has won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis from the National Press Club Journalism Awards!

As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures. www.wired.com/story/london...

i have so many questions about the pool. @wired.com's newsroom has so many questions about the pool. so i called Swimming Pool Steve, a youtuber who has shot to quasi-fame in recent weeks. spoiler alert: Steve also has lots of questions about the pool.

Wherein @mollytaft.com talks to YouTube's Swimming Pool Steve about the reflecting pool's "oh, crap" moment

NEW: Meta rolled out software to collect what workers were doing on their laptops to use for training AI, then left databases full of that information exposed to anyone in the company, then told WIRED they were pausing the program before telling employees. @peard33.bsky.social has the scoop!

Shot… Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from a controversial employee-tracking program, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models, accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED.

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

"Either I'm wiring up a lumber mill or a Dollar General warehouse or a data center or an Amazon facility or whatever else. [It's] essentially the same kind of work—all for already extremely rich pieces of shit to use for the exploitation of the working class so they can get more rich."

EXCLUSIVE A former ice cream salesman, whose only medical training is watching videos online, treats stage 4 cancer patients in his central London clinic by sealing them naked in a plastic bag and gassing them with toxic bleach www.wired.com/story/pseudo...

NEW: Dialog, the invite-only network cofounded by Peter Thiel, ranks its members based on money and fame — informing who’s in, who’s out, how much they pay to attend retreats, and even where they’re seated.

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

On today’s “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

"I cannot abide by corporations trying to silence employees who are expressing their right to speak politically. It’s incredibly dangerous if we allow corporations to do this."

NEW: The brilliant @hugolowell.bsky.social got his hands on Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's upcoming Trump book. It includes multiple anecdotes of tech execs, including Zuck and Bezos, seeking to ingratiate themselves with the president...and Trump brutally mocking them in return:

Once again the Silicon Valley crew of VC bros who flocked to support Trump said they had to do it because the Biden admin was making technologically clueless demands of AI companies (they weren't). None of them seem to be complaining about this technologically clueless demand that actually happened

NEW: The Trump admin clamped down on Anthropic following a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to Claude Mythos. Why? US officials were concerned the company may have ties to China.

Yessir.

NEW: The Trump administration is clear on what it wants Anthropic to do to get Fable 5 back online: Fix all jailbreaks. The only problem is that doesn't really make any sense. @hugolowell.bsky.social reports:

It's interactive. It's violent. It's frequently disgusting. This is Fishtank, a streaming reality show that's like Big Brother...but with zero rules and absolutely no standards. For our June cover story, @wired.com goes inside -- and on camera.

For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I talked to the wonderful @timheidecker.bsky.social about his new gig running Infowars for @theonion.com, how to win on the internet, the death of late-night, and much more:

NEW: @wired.com obtained the registration list for Peter Thiel’s secretive “Dialog” retreat being held in August. It includes Trump admin officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, plus founders and directors of several surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

NEW: In addition to the records that are going around, @wired.com obtained a different set of documents exposing the inner workings on Peter Thiel's mysterious Dialog society. They show this year's retreat will offer panels on cult-building, surviving WWIII, and more. There's a lot going on!

"It's myopic in the extreme to think that no other competitors to Anthropic will develop similar capabilities to Mythos or even that they have not already done so."

Donald Trump is obsessed with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being "American flag blue" before July 4th. Unfortunately it's full of algae making it a sickening shade of green instead:

I am the biggest Architectural Digest fan, and so thrilled that we had a chance to team up with them on these excellent stories.

NEW: Paramount refused to air a TV ad critical of its merger with WarnerBros. The ad was made by @freedom.press, to run during Trump's UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment. The irony!

WIRED has new details on the talks between Anthropic and the White house today. Still no agreement, Claude Fable 5 still offline. from @hugolowell.bsky.social @lhn.bsky.social @mzeff.bsky.social

Probably the first dumb phone I have immediately coveted — this is very cool:

The "Department of Defense, details how the military relies on Grok’s Gov model to 'support vital national security missions.' That includes using the model as part of recent strikes against Iran." Great @mollytaft.com story

Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they're still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

NEW: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth sent out a lengthy internal memo today, acknowledging that the company did an "atrocious" job rolling out its new AI division -- and promising to rekindle internal culture. How? Snacks, for one.

NEW: Meta is testing face-recognition built by a company whose tech is used by police and US military, as it explores bringing the capability to its smart glasses. New Meta scoop with w/ @dell.bsky.social Subscribe to WIRED to support more work like this. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

NEW: Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that primarily sells surveillance tools to police departments and the US military, as the company considers whether and how to deploy face-recognition tech in its smart glasses:

It was right that Knicks won in an arena that Charles Oakley was allowed to enter

Mark Zuckerberg announced a staff-wide hackathon to help smooth things over at Meta. It did not go over great! from @mzeff.bsky.social and @peard33.bsky.social

The @wired.com team will log off but one more Meta scoop first: Zuckerberg announced a Meta-wide hackathon, meant to boost morale. Instead, staff flipped out: “I’m literally preoccupied with keeping the lights on for my team. I have no incentive to participate, let alone have the time to do so.”

Absolutely brutal takedown of the America 250 event by @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/donald...

NEW: Meta’s AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”

Had fun talking about the blessed Knicks and their cursed owner on this week's @wired.com pod. open.spotify.com/episode/16Oe...

No greater gift than reading @timmarchman.bsky.social on the White House UFC boondoggle:

NEW: A variety of actors find it convenient to claim that opposition to data centers is the result of CHINESE COMMUNIST PSYOPS. If so, the crafty CCP has done a hell of a job covering up the evidence, reports the diligent @mollytaft.com:

My latest story for @wired.com is about the uber-wealthy tech guys and CEOs paying matchmakers $50k to set them up with trad wives. "They're not looking for a bossy bitch lady," one told me. "They want a woman who knows how to respect and honor a man." www.wired.com/story/matchm...