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Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI

By: Lauren Goode
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands

By: Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave
The unexpected interruption came hours before the president wrote a congratulatory post on Truth Social about the company’s most recent earnings report.
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The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable

By: Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here

By: Lauren Goode
Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
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The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret

By: Maxwell Zeff, Lauren Goode, Will Knight
The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.
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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign

By: Lauren Goode
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI

By: Lauren Goode
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
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Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers

By: Lauren Goode
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
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Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion

By: Lauren Goode
Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.
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Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

By: Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.
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Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different

By: Lauren Goode
The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.
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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

By: Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave
In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.
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A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents

Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.
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Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved

By: Lauren Goode
The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.
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Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs

On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.
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Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons

By: Lauren Goode
Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.
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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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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird

By: Lauren Goode
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
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Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’

By: Lauren Goode
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.
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Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist

By: Maxwell Zeff, Lauren Goode
“To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.
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Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription

By: Lauren Goode
The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down

By: Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave
John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.
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5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel

By: Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave
Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all.
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The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions

By: Lauren Goode
Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.
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Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off

By: Lauren Goode
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.
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Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

By: Lauren Goode
The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.
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Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems

By: Lauren Goode
The MTIA processors are the tech giant’s latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.
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Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

By: Zoë Schiffer, Lauren Goode
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
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Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
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Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

By: Lauren Goode
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
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Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

By: Lauren Goode
The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

By: Lauren Goode
The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.
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Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

By: Lauren Goode
Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.
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Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

By: Lauren Goode
Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
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Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial

By: Lauren Goode
The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation.
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Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

By: Lauren Goode
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
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Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

By: Lauren Goode
The chip giant says Vera Rubin will sharply cut the cost of training and running AI models, strengthening the appeal of its integrated computing platform.
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Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

By: Lauren Goode
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
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Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition

By: Lauren Goode, Michael Calore
In this episode of Uncanny Valley we take you through our recent conversation with Lisa Su and go behind the scenes of our Big Interview event.
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Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova

By: Lauren Goode
The two chip companies have signed a term sheet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement.
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OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer

By: Zoë Schiffer, Lauren Goode
A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI.
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What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

By: Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Evan Ratliff
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.
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The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble

By: Lauren Goode, Michael Calore
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what that means for all of us.
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The AI Boom Is Fueling a Need for Speed in Chip Networking

By: Lauren Goode
Next-gen networking tech, sometimes powered by light instead of electricity, is emerging as a critical piece of AI infrastructure.
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How to Hack a Poker Game

By: Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Andy Greenberg
This week on Uncanny Valley, we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table.
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Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending

By: Lauren Goode, Will Knight
Three of the biggest US tech companies reported record profits and record infrastructure spending on Wednesday, fueling speculation about a possible AI market bubble.
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AI Is Not God

By: Lauren Goode
In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third?
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How Data Centers Actually Work

By: Lauren Goode, Michael Calore
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI.
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