President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

Three new executive hires at Intel 👀 -Robin Colwell to lead gov affairs - most recently served as deputy asst to Trump and deputy director of the NEC -Annie Shea Weckesser, from SambaNova, will lead mar/comms -Pushkar Ranade is interim CTO (following Sachin Katti departure)

This week's pod has everything: AMD's Lisa Su, recaps from our @wired.com Big Interview event, subscription and Spotify Wrapped fatigue, why the kids will never know how fun it is to "tape" something wired.com/story/uncann... with @snackfight.bsky.social (BIG news coming next week, stay tuned)

Nice scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social: Slack CEO going to OpenAI as its new chief revenue officer, signaling the AI company’s move to enterprise. www.wired.com/story/slack-...

SCOOP: Intel and SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup that Intel was reportedly in talks to acquire, have signed a term sheet wired.com/story/intel-... Notably, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is chairman of SambaNova; SoftBank is an investor in both companies.

Scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social: Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI. She'll be the new chief revenue officer and report to COO Brad Lightcap: www.wired.com/story/slack-...

Slack's CEO is headed to OpenAI to help them figure out how to make money. scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/slack-...

Lisa Su leads Nvidia’s biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED’s Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, the company’s CEO said “Emphatically, from my perspective, no.” www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Watching @laurengoode.bsky.social interview AMD's Lisa Su at this @wired.com event. Su absolutely does not want to answer her questions about competition, and she's tapdancing around the political questions. Lauren keeps pressing, which is great to see.

News! I'm headed to CES again this year, primarily to focus on all of the big chip news coming out of the event. Send me all of your tips and event invites for semiconductors and AI chips; please (please) don't send pitches for AI toothbrushes 🤗

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

NEW: SSA employees are getting extremely worried about how the agency will continue to provide benefits to some 70 million Americans, according to meeting minutes obtained by @wired.com. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

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...

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.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?

world class reporting, organizing and presentation, here. WIRED really is that bitch

This is such an amazing package of stories and kudos to @harmancipants.bsky.social and our features editors for asking us to plumb the deepest depths for our takes on AI bsky.app/profile/harm...

Are you there, God? @laurengoode.bsky.social is looking www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...

NEW, from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: The FTC is disappearing blog posts about AI that were written during Lina Khan’s tenure as FTC chair www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

NEW: The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

This is really just incredible work from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social + photographer Michelle Groskopf. Come for the cybertruck dogs, stay for the insurrectionist? www.wired.com/story/owning...

Ten days ago I suited up in a clean room and toured Intel's new Fab 52 in Arizona. It's where the new Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest chips are being produced using a new node, 18A, and it's part of Intel's desperate Hail Mary to turn the company around www.wired.com/story/intel-...

ChatGPT is starting to look less like a chatbot and more like...an operating system www.wired.com/story/openai... latest from me & @willknight.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

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers shows that OAI believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble. The deal also gives OpenAI the option to acquire a 10 percent stake in AMD www.wired.com/story/openai... from @willknight.bsky.social and me

Marissa Mayer's AI company Sunshine is shuttering, with assets going to a new Mayer company called Dazzle. @laurengoode.bsky.social with the scoop. www.wired.com/story/mariss...

Scoop with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: Marissa Mayer is dissolving her Sunshine startup lab. The assets will be sold to a new Mayer-founded AI firm called Dazzle www.wired.com/story/mariss...

Larry Ellison is a shadow president in Donald Trump's America. www.wired.com/story/larry-... via @jakelahut.writes.news

Modular is one of the more interesting startups I’ve heard about in a long time. Their goal is hyper-specific but super important in the generative AI era: Improve the portability and performance of the software that runs on GPUs, and loosen the Nvidia CUDA chokehold www.wired.com/story/semico...

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

ayo @wired.com

They’re painting this @wired.com art on a wall in Bushwick today

In which @stevenlevy.bsky.social lays out what drew him to covering Silicon Valley years ago, and how the industry has arrived at an incredibly dangerous place of political pandering. www.wired.com/story/silico...

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

This @stevenlevy.bsky.social essay is many things. One of them is a love letter to the transformative, oppositional, innovative, optimistic Silicon Valley of the not-too-distant past. When founders talked about changing the world for the better — and meant it.

"Before she even met her family at the airport, she already decided to fly back to the US as soon as possible. She only stayed in Urumqi for two hours before hopping on the next flight back to California." @zeyiyang.bsky.social on the H-1B chaos this past weekend www.wired.com/story/dollar...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

“I had looked forward to the opportunity of traveling with my parents for a long time, but the reality is, I can’t leave behind my husband, my cat, my house, my friends, and my job in the US." $3,800 flights and aborted takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Visa announcement panicked tech workers.

There's a lot going on here!! www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

the list of national media institutions not owned by fascist billionaires is getting shorter and shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/top-t...

As part of the new agreement, Microsoft has committed to invest $30 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years. Nvidia, for its part, has pledged to spend up to $15 billion on AI-related R&D efforts in the UK www.wired.com/story/micros... via @natashabernal.bsky.social

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

In the indictment, prosecutors claim Tyler Robinson planned Kirk’s killing in advance, citing rooftop surveillance, engraved bullets, and a written note as they seek the death penalty. www.wired.com/story/charli...

Lauren and I discussed how platform content moderation policies and practices held up in the aftermath of the assassination, and the problematic role of AI-generated information propagated on social media.