“The Amazing Digital Circus” finale will hit more than 4,000 theaters around the world Thursday. Two weeks later it’ll be on YouTube, bucking Hollywood trends and testing the power of online fandom.

Love it or hate it, AI has been embraced by corporate America. You might not be able to stop your boss from demanding that you use it, but you can try to understand its promise and its limitations. As we like to say here at WIRED: AI or Die Trying!

🎇New package! We know you are confused, angry, invigorated or maybe paralyzed by corporate America's embrace of AI. So we wrote a bunch of stories, made a bunch of videos, added quizzes and made a whole mandatory AI training www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...

For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I interviewed California gubernatorial hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer. It was a tough hang for many reasons, but particularly because he didn't know who he was talking to.

“I run WIRED magazine, Tom.” www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

NEW: Huge thanks to @regret.bsky.social who did an ASAP analysis of the FCC complaints I FOIA’d about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Hundreds of people complained to the FCC that Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance was too horny, including people who admitted they had to look up translations of the lyrics in order to be upset. via FOIA and @waterslicer.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

BTS photos I took during our @wired shoot with Billie Eilish. You can read the story by @waterslicer.bsky.social here: www.wired.com/story/billie...

New: After banning its content from new users in the UK, Pornhub is restoring access to adults there who age verify via Apple—the company has long been pushing for device-based age verification: www.wired.com/story/pornhu...

“Looksmaxxing is out. Being hot is a state of mind.” www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

“I’ve worked on Wall Street. I’ve worked in the government. I’ve worked at a nonprofit trying to pass tougher rules on banks and Big Tech. I joke that I’ve cased the joint, and now I’m ready for the heist—except it’s not a heist, because it’s our money. They stole it first.“

Cyberdecks! www.wired.com/story/cyberd...

TIRED: Cocaine Bear WIRED: www.wired.com/story/cocain...

If you, like me, have been following the D4vd story rapt, you need to read this www.wired.com/d4vd-david-b...

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

Absolutely monster story here from @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social on the surveillance tactics used at MSG. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Rarely does @wired.com solve mysteries with book excerpts. This one, which reveals how a disguised man with a mysterious buzzing bulge calling himself “John von Neumann” played a grandmaster to a draw, is an exception. It was fun to edit. Hope you enjoy reading it. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

“This kind of marketing seems to be what it takes to cut through the algorithmic noise.”

Really smart piece from Kate here on prediction markets and tax season

“And how did I feel, physically? In a word, dear reader: unwell.” www.wired.com/story/i-took...

Kathleen Kennedy says AFI is starting to work AI into the curriculum. She talked about it with the dean and asked: “How are you going to teach taste?” Good stuff from @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/thank-...

Is woke really back??? (no but @milesklee.bsky.social story is still a fun read): www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Really appreciate this incredible endorsement of @wired.com from @maddow.bsky.social.

Given that there’s another No Kings protest this weekend, I’d like to point you to @davidgilbert.bsky.social’s wonderful @wired.com piece on the online origins of the movement. www.wired.com/story/techno...

Given the news that Iranian hacker group Handala breached FBI director Kash Patel's personal email, here's our profile from earlier this month of the group, which despite its hacktivist rhetoric is widely believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence. www.wired.com/story/handal...

Given that there’s another No Kings protest this weekend, I’d like to point you to @davidgilbert.bsky.social’s wonderful @wired.com piece on the online origins of the movement. www.wired.com/story/techno...

Since the cursive discourse is back I’m going to go ahead and tap the sign. www.wired.com/story/the-en...

“The war is not over. The casualties are not the way they were before. They’re isolated incidents, but they’re still happening.” Important story from @attackerman.bsky.social today on what doctors are seeing in Gaza. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...

Important story from @attackerman.bsky.social about what doctors have seen in Gaza since the ceasefire. The wounds have not healed. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...

"Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn’t even a demand." r.i.p. sora lol from 2025: www.wired.com/story/the-bl...

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

If you, like me, spend a lot of time thinking about how hard it is to get people to pay attention to what’s happening in the world then this conversation between @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social is for you. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

The Epic layoffs today are another sign of the same reason we're all talking about DLSS 5. The video game industry is showing signs of a mass extinction - a death stranding, so to speak. I wrote about it last week: www.garbageday.email/p/the-death-...

Another exciting—and slightly terrifying—book excerpt on @wired.com today: A chapter from @profferguson.bsky.social’s new book ‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance’. Read it here. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

NEW: from pickup artists filming drunk women to pranks on retail workers, @milesklee.bsky.social looked at how Meta Ray-Bans are making annoying men everyone's problem: www.wired.com/story/the-ri...

“Girl, when will we ever be in the Polymarket bar eating pizza again?” www.wired.com/story/polyma...

We talked to eyewitnesses about the ICE takeover of American airports:

If you see anything at a US airport today, please reach out to Tori.

We have a great excerpt from Katrina Manson’s ‘Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare’ on @wired.com today. It’s a must-read if you’re interested in AI’s use in war. www.wired.com/story/projec...

Feds just took down 4 botnets, including the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets that carried out record-breaking DDOS attacks peaking at 30+ terabits per second, nearly three times the previous record. DOJ says the botnets had hijacked more than three million devices. www.wired.com/story/us-tak...

We talked to a teen who runs a "slander page" about his high school teachers, using AI to have staff sing and dance alongside Epstein and Netanyahu—or simply call them predators and cucks: www.wired.com/story/teens-...

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...

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

I've been following Yann LeCun's career for almost (!) 20 years, since I was a little @wired.com intern covering his research. He's the real deal, and uniquely unfiltered as tech leaders go. Very curious to see what this company gets up to (even though, yes, $1B is insane):

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

Please enjoy @stevenlevy.bsky.social sparring with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour over whether or not taking a market position on Kalshi is the same as placing a bet. www.wired.com/story/big-in...