Recently postulated to my partner that companies should be begging for single-payer to reduce their own costs. Partner reminded me that, if we don’t need jobs to afford healthcare, corporations have no control over us. This is both correct and a sad as fuck commentary on American society.

For @wired.com's Backchannel newsletter this week, I wrote about shrinking benefits in the corporate world and what this signals about power shifts in the workforce. It's maddening—but so is the rising cost of healthcare and the total lack of social safety net in the US www.wired.com/story/compan...

"Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives." Excellent reporting about the doom mood inside ever-profitable Meta by @peard33.bsky.social, @laurengoode.bsky.social, @stevenlevy.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

NEW, from @peard33.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @stevenlevy.bsky.social and me: Morale at Meta is sinking, with layoffs pending, exorbitant spending on AI, a new initiative to track employee computer movements, mandatory role changes, courtroom losses, and more www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

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...

🚨 Livestream starting in 30 minutes! At 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT, a panel of WIRED experts will go live to answer your questions about the Musk v. Altman trial—a case that could shape the future of OpenAI. Make sure to tune in: www.wired.com/story/livest...

Lots of people have suspected AI job screeners of unfairly judging them. Not many have spent six months trying to prove it by reverse-engineering their own AI screener and testing it with 6,000 synthetic applications. Meet Chad. www.wired.com/story/he-cou...

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @wired.com's @laurengoode.bsky.social, @nytimes.com's @danbarry58.bsky.social and @thr.com's Julian Sancton about a new kind of impersonation scam targeting the publishing industry and how AI is superpowering online scams. ❓What are your Qs about online scams? 📻 Listen:

Thanks to the FTC spokesperson who suggests that @wired.com “Stick to computers.” But no.

Sam Altman's orb company made a big deal last week about an orb partnership with Bruno Mars. It doesn't exist, they never even talked, yet another reason not put your faith in the orb. from @mzeff.bsky.social and @laurengoode.bsky.social

I sometimes say that Tim Cook is the world’s greatest glue salesman. Here’s why www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

NEWS: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO. Apple svp of hardware engineering John Ternus will take on the CEO role starting in Sept. @peard33.bsky.social and I break down Cook's career, his wins, his losses, his legacy as CEO, and what this big change means for Apple www.wired.com/story/tim-co...

NEW: Absolutely bonkers tale for @wired.com by @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social about Beijing spying on Chinese dissidents in the US, including Alysa Liu's father (and Alysa as a result): www.wired.com/story/the-we...

Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. I took a deep dive into Intel's approach, how it's going all in on packaging, and how the co (along with the PM of Malaysia) has been signaling that it's ramping up packaging www.wired.com/story/why-ch...

Every generation of start-ups has its own fuzzy math. Groupon had ACSOI (earnings excluding very high marketing costs) WeWork had a similar "community adjusted Ebitda" I guess OpenAI and Anthropic have earnings excluding training costs (which are very very high) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

My next Big Interview for @wired.com is out, and the timing couldn’t be better: In the days before Arm was set to launch its own chip (!) I had the chance to grill Arm CEO Rene Haas on what this CPU means for the chip market, and for the future of Arm www.wired.com/story/arms-c...

Huge news in chip world: ARM is now making its own chips www.wired.com/story/chip-d...

Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...

Scoop: Grammarly is facing a class action lawsuit over its AI "expert review" tool, which presented advice from living and dead authors without their consent. Parent company Superhuman pulled the feature earlier today following backlash. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gramma...

NEW: Grammarly got hit with a class-action lawsuit this afternoon over its AI "expert review" feature that uses real experts' likenesses without their consent. @juliaangwin.com is the only named plaintiff. @milesklee.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Big scoop from @willknight.bsky.social: Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths from this recent Dorsey interview:

AI companies have all learned the lesson that smartphone companies learned almost a decade ago: Design your own chips. from @laurengoode.bsky.social

Had this convo with a *certain* VC off the record last year. And said plainly: Point of journalism is not to solely help your deal flow and make rich people richer, but to provide truthful and accurate information to people who don't have such access to power and capital bsky.app/profile/kngu...

Believing the point of Wired—or journalism at large—is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.

for the record, i won't work for people like this. i don't give a shit about money. i will thoreau myself. i'll eat soup everyday. i will get a job at wingstop.

SCOOP from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social & @laurengoode.bsky.social Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Scoop, from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and me: Nvidia has been readying a new open-source, agentic AI platform for businesses. Think OpenClaw, but for enterprises. Nvidia is pitching it to customers as a secure option for claws, and plans to reveal more at GTC next week www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government www.wired.com/story/openai... via @mzeff.bsky.social

Anthropic sues US government www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Wired has gotten more negative, and that’s a positive. I was working there when the vibe started shifting from “wow, look what tech can do!” to, “oh shit, look what tech companies are doing.” Less cheerleading and more watchdogging is precisely the right call.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

What's interesting about this convo with Jack—in addition to his comments on Block layoffs, the state of X, and his decision to step away from Bluesky—is that he says Wired has gotten more negative but also essentially acknowledged that the state of tech isn't...great www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

Huge scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social: Sources say the DoD used Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications www.wired.com/story/openai...

NEW: AI code translation startup Code Metal, which closed its series A funding round in November, has just raised another $125 million. The company makes a code translation and code validation platform for defense tech, among other industries www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

Yesterday Nvidia and Meta announced a multi-billion dollar deal for chips in Meta's AI datacenters—both GPUs and CPUs. I wrote about why CPUs are back, and how Nvidia is adapting in an era when AI labs and tech co's are looking at every possible compute resource www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

NEW from @laurengoode.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/letter...

NEW: Salesforce employees are circulating a letter urging CEO Marc Benioff to denounce ICE www.wired.com/story/letter...

meta's on trial in new mexico and @laurengoode.bsky.social has the details: www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it

Loyalty is dead www.wired.com/story/model-...

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer! As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.

Over the past few days we've heard from ppl at Palantir, Google, and elsewhere who are sharing company leaders' responses to, or lack of response to, ICE actions in MN and around the US (see: @makenakelly.bsky.social @mzeff.bsky.social's excellent reporting). We're curious to hear more. Signal us.

The whole interview is worth it

Are you a tech worker or tech company leader who sees what's happening in Minnesota—and across the US—as the tipping point for no longer being silent about your personal politics? My DMs are open; Signal handle is in my bio.

This is excellent reporting by @laurengoode.bsky.social. The article doesn't name the attorneys representing Meta. It's not illegal, it's not even unethical to defend bad people. It is, however, immoral to help evil continue unabated. That matters. www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

Good morning and happy hump day! 🐪 This piece by @laurengoode.bsky.social pointing out the depths Zuckerberg / meta will go to hide the damage done to children is excellent investigative journalism. The @wired.com has proven to be a trusted source of information! www.wired.com/story/meta-c...