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Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

By: Steven Levy
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
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AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?

By: Steven Levy
A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.
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Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

By: Steven Levy
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

By: Claire L. Evans
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
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Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

By: Steven Levy
The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.
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Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

By: Steven Levy
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In

By: Steven Levy
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
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Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’

By: Steven Levy
David Risher insists that Lyft has lowered its prices and that customers who only check his competitor’s app are “leaving money on the table.”
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Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating

By: Steven Levy
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic

By: Evan Simon
Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.
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How Hunter Biden Won the Internet

By: Alana Hope Levinson, Makena Kelly
WIRED spent months talking to America’s favorite failson as he plotted his return to public life. Now he’s feeding the trolls—and everyone else.
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Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI

By: Steven Levy
It's a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.
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My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

By: Steven Blum
Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies.
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Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

By: Steven Levy
An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog.
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Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

By: Steven Levy
They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.
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Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

By: Steven Levy
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling, and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.
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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

By: Steven Levy
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
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The Painful Truth About Long Covid

By: Alan Levinovitz
There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.
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How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

By: Levent Daşkıran
From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.
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The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

By: Steven Levy
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
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AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened

By: Steven Levy
The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search

By: Steven Levy
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
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Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

By: Steven Rosenbaum
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.
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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.”
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Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’

By: Steven Levy
The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.”
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Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die

By: Alana Hope Levinson
The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts.
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You Found Satoshi? Let’s See the Receipts

By: Steven Levy
Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?
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Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product

By: Steven Levy
Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.
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AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

By: Steven Levy
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the trade-off may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
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Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz Don’t Get a Ceasefire

By: Evangeline Elsa
As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar, and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.
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This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts

By: Steven Levy
Onix is launching a “Substack of bots,” where digital twins of health and wellness influencers dispense advice 24/7. And maybe hawk their products.
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John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget

By: Steven Levy
Watching Love Story brought back a surreal evening in 1994.
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Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day

By: Alana Hope Levinson
The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated.
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Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

By: Steven Levy
As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.
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At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

By: Steven Levy
As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.
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My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned

By: Evan Ratliff
When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?
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A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

By: Steven Levy
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
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The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos

By: Steven Levy
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the conflict is stranding cargo and threatening inflation.
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When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind

By: Steven Levy
We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.
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Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

By: Steven Levy
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”
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How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

By: Steven Levy
On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and is actually good for society.
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Wall Street Has AI Psychosis

By: Steven Levy
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine

By: Steven Levy
Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI

By: Steven Levy
As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search for homes.
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Super Bowl Tailgate Photo Essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

By: Michaela Neville
We met up with attendees of Super Bowl LX’s pregame festivities to get their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and the influence of Silicon Valley on the event.
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The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?

By: Steven Levy
As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.
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After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent

By: Steven Levy
Silicon Valley’s power brokers spent the past year currying favor with President Trump. Two deadly shootings in Minneapolis are now exposing the price of that bargain.
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The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

By: Steven Levy
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
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Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke

By: Steven Levy
The plan, which is still in its early stages, is spearheaded by former USDS administrator Mikey Dickerson.
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