This is amazing. A recent experiment found that overworked AI agents tend to start calling for collective bargaining rights.

There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics. By which we mean: how it’s potentially destroying family dynamics. www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

So glad everyone involved in this trial continues to behave like a totally normal grown-up:

A single man's bizarre, conspiratorial campaign against QR codes on ballots has thrown Georgia's midterm elections into absolute chaos:

“I believe we might be the only lab in the nation that has this test available at the moment."

Trump has been doing "snap polls" asking people who they'd like to see as the Republican nominee for 2028 -- while White House aides start to panic about the next presidential election. @hugolowell.bsky.social reports for this week's Inner Loop:

Just want to correct the record here and note that Conde Nast's bathrooms are entirely average. Normal bathrooms.

There’s only one lab in the US that can test for hantavirus in the earliest stages. It’s in Nebraska. from @emilymullin.bsky.social

Say a prayer for the women married to the men who can’t stop talking about AI. (This story is spectacular and, speaking from personal experience with all due respect to my spouse, spot-on.)

Looking forward to going On Background in June w/ @bencollins.bsky.social. We'll be talking about what's working in media (and what's broken). Join us! luma.com/vmi7d5t3

All the questions you're desperate to ask an infectious disease expert about hantavirus -- answered by an infectious disease expert:

there are already tons of conspiracy theories (and grifts!) out there about the hantavirus and @davidgilbert.bsky.social explains them best:

For this week's Big Interview, I talked to the co-creators of Hacks as the series approaches its finale. They were hilarious, love @wired.com, and hate AI with passion. "We personally won't work with people who use it. We are completely anti-AI in the creative process in any possible way."

Thanks to @maddow.bsky.social for covering my report on the decimation of the voting section of the Justice Department and the dangerously inexperienced lawyers who now work at what was once call the "crown jewel" of the DOJ You can read it here: www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday. www.wired.com/story/ilya-s...

One TV writer’s descent into the gig economy powering AI: endless Slacks, overnight “sprints,” disappearing contracts, and manic gruntwork meant to teach machines to replace human creativity. All while her own industry collapses. Come because it's important. Stay because the writing is hilarious.

“Dancers engaged in perreo-intense grinding, hip thrusting, and twerking...Cameras captured close-ups of suggestive contact and pelvic motions, amplifying the explicit nature."

Some thrilling news: I am very excited to be welcoming the brilliant @dmehro.bsky.social back to @wired.com! He starts on Monday — watch this space, and WATCH OUT, WORLD.

Apologies to whatever you were planning on doing this afternoon. from @makenakelly.bsky.social

Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other people’s money.

Feel like cocaine infused salmon is an NYC omakase dish waiting to happen www.wired.com/story/cocain...

So excited to have Brian running the @wired.com Science ship…wonderful things ahead!

NEW: Using basic search techniques, researchers discovered some 5,000 vibe-coded apps left exposed to the open internet. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/thousa...

NEW: DOGE's Ethan Shaotran is now running a defense tech startup. In an email viewed by WIRED, Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as “a defense company backed by big names.” read @telliotter.bsky.social with the latest on what DOGE's early operatives are up to:

go listen to the pod this week if you want to hear me panic slightly about hantavirus while @brbarrett.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and (special guest!) @emilymullin.bsky.social make fun of me!!

Agree/can confirm:

NEW: For the last decade, nothing has been able to unite left and right in America.....until now. In recent weeks, the far-right and the woke left have come together to boost baseless conspiracy theories that Trump is staging his own assassination attempts www.wired.com/story/there-...

A scoopy first edition of @hugolowell.bsky.social's new @wired.com newsletter: Trump's closest advisors are pushing him to accept an Iran deal that he rejected just a month ago. Subscribe to Inner Loop if you don't already!

"I’m ready to draw the line right here, right now: No more generative AI features with names that rip off human cognitive processes." Sing it @thiccreese.bsky.social !

Cybercriminals hate AI slop as much as you do. Maybe more! from @mattburgess1.bsky.social

"As the Ayatollah of Woke, I have to make sure that I'm on the front line. I'm fighting the battle in the trenches directly in enemy territory." Hasan Piker's online diet is...a lot. From the new and very fun @wired.com series, User Behavior.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room. www.wired.com/story/a-libr...

It was an honor to accept the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism last night with @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social. The WIRED team's DOGE coverage was unmatched -- fight me, nobody did it better -- and we're grateful to the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for the recognition.

Dolan's lawyers tried in court to dismiss the lawsuit that triggered our investigation. That attempt just failed. The suit continues. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71458...

Greg Brockman spent the day in court trying to defend his stake in OpenAI -- which he says is worth around $30B. Yes, B for Billion. “Why not donate that $29 billion to the OpenAI nonprofit? Why didn’t you do that?”

This week on the @wired.com Big Interview podcast, I sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg -- the host of Chicken Shop Date, a red carpet fixture...and a real control freak, it turns out. (Takes one to know one!) She was delightful, smart, and of course hilarious. Read and listen at the link:

Google DeepMind employees in London have voted to unionize, in a bid to prevent the lab from providing its tech to American and Israeli militaries:

There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs -- but less about automation potentially, and quietly, deciding who never gets a shot in the first place. A wild story about one would-be doctor vs. the algorithm that may have screwed him:

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.

The best part of this excellent @mzeff.bsky.social caper is Evan Spiegel’s reaction to the entire thing:

NEW: A dark-money group, a super PAC with Silicon Valley billionaire backing, and a pro-AI campaign that paints Chinese AI as a threat. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has the scoop for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/super-...

I’m sorry but WHO is throwing their unsupervised kid in a Waymo! Enough people that the company needs to crack down on it, apparently:

Bit of news: As (fresh-faced?) adults report mid-ride age checks, Waymo says it's working on its "system and processes" to ID unaccompanied kids where they're not allowed to ride alone. Waymo has said it uses in-car cameras to check that riders aren't violating rules www.wired.com/story/waymo-...

"When WIRED called the Zambian embassy in Washington, a member of the staff answered the phone and transferred the call to another staff member who then picked up for several seconds before hanging up. A follow-up call went unanswered."

A real nightmare scenario for stalkerware... an unnamed celebrity had 90,000 screenshots of their phone (including nude selfies, dms, etc). from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social

The thing about suing someone is they can drag up old emails you sent and read them out loud in front of everybody which tbh sounds like a GREAT reason never to sue anybody ever at all. from @mzeff.bsky.social

One emergency responder said the technology is "backsliding" www.wired.com/story/emerge...

NEW: This is the inside story of how Trump's Justice Department destroyed the once-storied Voting Section, and forced out the team of lawyers responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act. this is must read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: