NEW: Tons of recent news reports have mentioned the fact that Claude works inside war tech from Palantir to help the Pentagon select its targets. But how does this actually work? What specifically is Claude doing vs not doing? I broke down everything we know: www.wired.com/story/palant...

BRING 👏🏻 BACK 👏🏻 WHIMSY 👏🏻

The Laundry Chair is a chair for your laundry from @simonegiertz.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/simone...

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers. www.wired.com/story/google...

SCOOP: WIRED has learned the identity of the DOGE operative at the center of a whistleblower complaint about social security data www.wired.com/story/john-s... by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

Can this be a solution?

Great @wired.com scoop from @milesklee.bsky.social!

Earlier this month, WIRED reported on Grammarly’s controversial AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics, without their consent. Now Grammarly parent company Superhuman is facing a class action lawsuit over the tool.

Every Frame a Hologram

Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life. www.wired.com/story/lookin...

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution? @mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

san francisco was a mistake

"I see the proliferation of AI-based fake news pushing us over the edge of a fact-based world unless we enact change now."

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

BREAKING: Graber is out as CEO of Blueksy. Full report here from @knibbs.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

she was a fairy

half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns

Damn.

In an exclusive interview with @stevenlevy.bsky.social, Jack Dorsey tries to explain Block’s massive layoffs, reacts to CEOs sucking up to Trump, and talks about why he’s so unhappy with @wired.com 😭 It’s a great conversation, read away:

Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics. www.wired.com/story/deveil...

no one: Silicon Valley: im gonna create a MARKET that is so POLY it could destroy the world

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists! lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work. Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire. It’s an AI flop. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

but it’s good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work. Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire. It’s an AI flop. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

that's good right

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.

NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen "this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

👀 www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...

Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, “How To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity. This is transphobia.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad. www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...

Criticism of OpenAI working with the Department of Defense seen in San Francisco this morning. “OPENAI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?”

ByteDance is still trying to make the VR workplace happen

The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.

The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills. www.wired.com/story/war-in...

practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.