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...

This is gonna be good bsky.app/profile/wire...

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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

"Some leaders may want to believe that ICE arrests and the icy streets of Minnesota are far enough away from their own boardrooms not to have any impact, but that belief might not hold much longer."

“The most wealthy and powerful tech CEOs are still staying silent as ICE floods America’s streets, but now some researchers and engineers working for them have chosen to break rank.” Great @laurengoode.bsky.social story:

hard same. and you will be in the same office as me so you can't escape it

I wrote about ICE, Silicon Valley's response (or lack of) to ICE flooding US streets, and why "business as usual" for CEOs doesn't really apply in a politically unstable climate www.wired.com/story/backla...

Come work with us. Edit me. Will message you at odd hours, unload my crippling anxieties as a writer on you, share snacks with you, send you weird Etsy gifts, and make your work life a whole lot more fun/interesting....promise bsky.app/profile/kati...

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

NEW: Nvidia says its next-generation AI chips, Vera Rubin, are in "full production." Company seems eager to reassure partners and investors that there isn't a slip on this one... www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

For @wired.com’s end-of-year WIRED/TIRED series I wrote about the boom in data centers and AI infrastructure this year, some of which felt like handshake deals greased with exuberance and gigawatts, while the rest of us try to understand the downstream effects www.wired.com/story/expire...

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.

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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...