Donald Trump claims he broke off contact with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. But recently released text messages show Epstein presenting himself—to a Bill Gates associate—as plugged into the Trump White House as recently as 2017. from @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

“I’ll see you in court,” New York Attorney General Tish James says to Condé Nast at a rally over, well, my own firing. Reinstate the Fired Four ✊

python3 sing_muse.py There I’m basically Homer now

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

But if you have some spare income, give what you can here or sign up for one of the paid tiers. I think the founding member thing lets you put in whatever you want straightfromthehut.substack.com

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

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.

Jake is one of the best and I’ll really miss working with him — whoever gets to work with him next is very lucky!

If you haven't already, you should read this great interview of now New York Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social by @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

How do you give a chatbot “spine”? Train it to stand up to “high-conflict” people. I spoke with Dr. Ramani Durvasula, one of the internet's most popular authorities on narcissism, about an AI-powered app for co-parents that she’s advising on www.wired.com/story/ai-emo...

“Maybe we didn’t change everything. But we changed how people imagine what’s possible.” must read, on the inside story of Nepal's Discord revolution www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

Nothing I've read about AI has gotten at the deep, wonder-filled, and unsettling truth of this moment quite like this new WIRED longread by Alex Mar. Seriously, if this was a movie it would win the Oscar. It’s that good—and it was a highlight of my career to work on it.

“What is the hole in our culture that therapy fills? And what really happens when we try to re-create that relationship with a machine?” @alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots www.wired.com/story/ai-the...

NEW: I had a very interesting talk with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, AI, tech bros, and whether Mary Shelley really kept Percy Bysshe Shelley's charred heart after he died. Also, GDT says he hopes to start shooting 'The Buried Giant' next year. (!!!) www.wired.com/story/guille...

"In the room for 5- to 7-year-olds, a large TV on one wall displays circle charts that update every minute with completion rates and other metrics from each student’s personalized learning software" www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

“It just felt like, wow, we really are just abused people.” A must read from my imitable @wired.com politics teammates @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social on what furloughed federal workers have been going through 30 days into the shutdown www.wired.com/story/federa...

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration. According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.

Don't know what to think about AI? Consult the @wired.com tarots www.wired.com/ai-issue/

They didn’t want to put their children in the middle—so they put a machine there instead.

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

The ones that stick with me the most are this investigation into Alpha School, Silicon Valley's favorite AI-first educational environment...

I’m writing for the local paper again!

Great time to read @katie-drummond.bsky.social 's conversation with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social -- especially when it comes to ICE www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

I sat down with Zohran Mamdani, presumptive winner of NYC's mayoral election and the internet's fave politician, for a @wired.com interview. We covered: -Big Tech capitulation to Trump -His tips for finding <3 on Hinge -The backstory of his social campaign -Linkin Park, multiple times, vv important

There are now a shocking *60,000* people in a Facebook group dedicated to an unproven autism treatment being pushed by the Trump administration. That's just one of many disturbing details in this must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

This really gets at the scale of OpenAI's ambitions, a world in which it's not just a chatbot living inside a browser but an entire platform unto itself. from @willknight.bsky.social @laurengoode.bsky.social and @thiccreese.bsky.social

This summer @zeyiyang.bsky.social trekked across four countries in search of what makes labubu labubu:

In college, I'd always walk past an unremarkable store in Beijing that sold a variety of trendy, but tacky, toys. That store has turned into Pop Mart, the $45-billion Chinese toy empire behind Labubu, the biggest global fad of 2025. This is my big story/pilgrimage trip to explain how they got here

Featuring exclusive interviews with *Labubu's creator *the Pop Mart C-suite *THE CHIEF OF ALL LABUBUS www.wired.com/story/labubu...

You may think you know Labubu, but @zeyiyang.bsky.social knows more www.wired.com/story/labubu...

This is the story, in federal workers’ words, of “what happened when the world’s most powerful man unleashed the world’s richest one on the world’s most complex institution.” www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!! www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of federal agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. This is the oral history of DOGE, as told by federal workers:

Harrowing deep dive by my colleagues on DOGE’s devastation of government agencies, in the words of federal workers: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs. www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

“They can’t get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

popping back in from mat leave to say i profiled @katmabu.bsky.social for @wired.com and you should read it! she's running a fascinating campaign: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

What are words, even? from @dell.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen, the @brbarrett.bsky.social blog you need to read today: www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

As we listen to RFK's heavy, heavy breathing before Congress, take a moment and read @wired.com's package on what is really going on with science and medicine right now! www.wired.com/beyond-welln...

"The guy who once had a fever dream about murderous machines while 'sick and broke' in Rome and proceeded to turn it into The Terminator—the creator of Skynet!—is on the board of an AI company." @zoeschiffer.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/artifi...

The AI revolution in Hollywood is already underway Great reporting from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social here, including a a conversation with James Cameron, the man who came up with Terminator and Skynet, and who is now on the board of an AI company... www.wired.com/story/artifi...

It's not often that I finish a feature story and then ... scroll right back to the top to start reading it again. We've been buzzing about this one on staff for weeks, and there's a lot more coming that we're very excited about. (Subscribe to WIRED, everyone!)

I've read this story at least five times, and it has my jaw on the floor and sends shivers down my spine every! single! time! Think you know a thing or two about the risks of surrogacy? You have no idea. From the @wired.com features team.

"The case of Bi and her surrogate shows how, in an environment with little regulation and extreme inequality, the miracle of life can mutate into a death sentence." Absolutely harrowing long read about the power dynamics of surrogacy on @wired.com today: www.wired.com/story/the-ba...