You may know the software company Palantir as a contractor for ICE + the military. But in recent months, it's relaunched its merch store & said it wants to be a "lifestyle brand." What does it mean for Palantir to be a lifestyle brand...? I unpacked it here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Looking forward to still writing about this drama next September. But for now, here’s what we know about the TikTok deal as of Friday. Reported with @jakelahut.writes.news

Thanks so much to Paris for having me on @techwontsave.us!! Definitely give the episode a listen if you wanna hear us talk about Palantir, Peter Thiel, the antichrist, and related matters :)

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...

When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

How come after single time in my ENTIRE LIFE I’ve tried to walk around someone, they start drifting into the exact place I was going to pass them moments before I was gonna step there and just completely block off that route ❤️❤️

Bringing you the earnings report that matters! Pop Mart’s net profits grew 362% yoy in H1 2025 Revenue-wise: - the Labubu franchise grew 668% to $670 million (more than Barbie or Hot Wheels) - the Americas market grew 1100+% - the plush products grew over 1200+% & that’s not including Lafufus!

has anyone written something smart on this (seemingly) increasingly popular culture war tactic where women cringe and bad = lib and women pretty and good = conservative ...?

You may have seen Silicon Valley tech figures posting + panicking about Zohran Mamdani in recent weeks. I decided to talk to NYC-based tech execs who have actually sat down with him. They’re not panicking: www.wired.com/story/tech-e...

Were u on vacation / generally offline last week? If so, understandable — but icymi, here's my explainer about What Palantir Actually Does: www.wired.com/story/palant...

A bunch of big AI companies have landed major contracts with the US government this month. xAI was in position to join the list ... until MechaHitler. from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

????? www.reuters.com/investigates...

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. www.wired.com/story/palant...

guy at the grocery store checkout said that my shoes were "fucking weird" but that his girlfriend "would definitely love them" and asked for the brand + shoe name lmfao

there's approximately 1 billion insane details in this so it's impossible to share a pull quote but I would recommend reading this nymag.com/intelligence...

bald ann downd isn't active on here but I think it's crucial that the bluskyers see this and contemplate it

Even ex-employees struggle to provide a clear description of Palantir. It’s not that they literally don’t know what the company is selling. But when asked to, say, name its direct business competitors, some former Palantir employees have struggled to answer: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Really really good piece from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social on Palantir: www.wired.com/story/palant...

a must read for anyone who’s always hearing about this nebulous company and wondering “wtf is that?”

What does Palantir actually...do? Thank you @carolinehaskins.bsky.social for taking on the task finding out/explaining this www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...

thank you! very helpful response to a foia I filed 2 years ago❤️

NEW: Edward "Big Balls" Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking w/ @carolinehaskins.bsky.social More here, including info from the police report ⤵️ www.wired.com/story/edward...

NEW: we have the police report detailing the alleged incident that Trump + Elon Musk have posted about — an alleged assault & attempted hijacking targeting DOGE’s “Big Balls” + his significant other: www.wired.com/story/edward...

“There’s so much traumatic injury, like blast wounds and broken bones. But they’re not healing, because people don’t have the nutrients to build the collagen necessary to close them. So wounds that are a month, even two months old, still look as fresh as if they had occurred in the last week.”

SCOOP: We filed a Freedom of Information Act Request and received hundreds of pages of documents about the system access DOGE members Edward Coristine and Donald Park received at the Small Business Administration. But nested in there was something even bigger... www.wired.com/story/edward...

New: Sen. Wyden is asking DHS to investigate reports of HSI agents being moved from child exploitation cases to immigration cases. 0 of the 6 child protection orgs I contacted for this story would comment. One said it was because they feared retribution from Trump: www.wired.com/story/senato...

I wrote about how AI chatbots strip cultural and historical context away from language. What remains is merely a ghost in the machine, and it's repeatedly making people confused and scared www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

Trump's Commerce Secretary loves tariffs. His former investment firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, is letting clients essentially bet that the tariffs will be struck down in court, per a letter obtained by WIRED. Scoop w/ @lmatsakis.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cantor...

New nightmare just dropped. @willknight.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/decart...

New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Also notable: Katie Miller has removed "wife of Stephen M" from her Twitter bio, as well as the Elon rocket from her cover photo

New: Metadata shows nearly 3 minutes were cut from what the DOJ & FBI described as “full raw” Epstein surveillance footage. WIRED previously revealed the video was stitched together in Premiere Pro. Now we’ve found one of the source clips was nearly 3 mins longer than what was released

BIG NEWS: After a long investigation we have uncovered that Axon's Draft One--a program that uses genAI to write police reports based on body-worn camera audio--is *designed* not to retain the data on which parts were written by an officer and which parts were written by AI. A looming disaster.

Trump Mobile keeps charging my credit card and I have no idea why. I didn't sign up for the phone plan. I still haven't received my gold phone. I don't know how to make them stop because the website errors out and the customer help line couldn't help either www.404media.co/trump-mobile...

As you may have seen, Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X. It's not clear whether Musk plans to announce a successor: www.wired.com/story/linda-...

Today, Grok has been making astoundingly antisemitic remarks in replies to people on X. Horrifying, beyond disgusting. As of right now, xAI hasn't explained what went wrong or what it's doing to fix it. www.wired.com/story/grok-a...

Gutting. Just unimaginable. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

NEW: in the wake of devastating floods in tx, some officials say NWS forecasts weren't sufficient enough to warn them, while others are warning that DOGE cuts may have made predictions less accurate. meteorologists told me: NWS did a solid job with the forecasts around this storm

NEW: CBP wants new tech that can find a “hidden language” in text messages; identify specific objects, “like a red tricycle,” in videos; access chats in encrypted messaging apps; and “find patterns” in large data sets. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...

If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyzes your texts, pictures, and social connections. Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech: www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...

🚨 Big AI moratorium news— after initially introducing a comprise version of the provision with Ted Cruz yesterday, Marsha Blackburn has walked back support for her own compromise. Her reversal comes after a day of hard lobbying against the bill from a wide array of orgs. STORY TK!

@dmehro.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social went through hundreds of 911-call records from ICE's largest detention centers this year. Facing life-threatening emergencies, they found that facilities are "overwhelmed, and at times, seemingly indifferent to medical crises." www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

New from 404 Media: Flock has cut off cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia from national lookups after our investigations and others based on our reporting. Comes after we revealed cops doing lookups for ICE and an abortion case. Massive changes to this tech www.404media.co/flock-remove...

Big Balls scoop with the @wired.com dream team: Edward Coristine has left the federal govt and resigned yesterday, per a WH source. More details here from multiple sources on his departure, w/ @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-ba...