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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

By: Paresh Dave
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.
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Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
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Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario

By: Paresh Dave
After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online map provider to flip the switch.
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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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Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

By: Paresh Dave
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.
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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 Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All

By: Paresh Dave, Brian Barrett
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
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AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

By: Paresh Dave
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
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‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware

By: Paresh Dave, Aarian Marshall
Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.
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OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

By: Paresh Dave, Brian Barrett
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

By: Paresh Dave
Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.
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LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

By: Paresh Dave
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
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Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

By: Paresh Dave
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
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One of Meta’s Offices Was Briefly Overtaken by a Rogue Squirrel

By: Paresh Dave
The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.
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An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in Mississippi

By: Paresh Dave
The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers.
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Truckloads of Tesla Batteries Keep Getting Stolen Before They Even Leave the Factory

By: Paresh Dave
Nine major suspected cargo thefts happened at Tesla’s Nevada battery factory in January alone, according to sheriff’s records obtained by WIRED.
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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

By: Paresh Dave
The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.
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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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3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers

By: Paresh Dave
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
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‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI

By: Paresh Dave
A Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.”
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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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Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.
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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

By: Paresh Dave, Zoë Schiffer
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
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Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire

By: Paresh Dave
SpaceX’s stock market debut has thrust the richest man in the universe into an unexplored frontier of wealth.
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SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test

By: Paresh Dave
The rocket maker debuts on Nasdaq today under a wave of criticism about Musk’s near-absolute control. It’s how the company has worked from the start.
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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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OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
The ChatGPT-maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.
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OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides

By: Paresh Dave
“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”
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Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers

By: Paresh Dave
Activists say it’s the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.
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Anthropic Confidentially Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever

By: Paresh Dave
The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.
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SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging that Grok created sexualized images.
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SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers

By: Paresh Dave
The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.
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SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
The long-awaited documents SpaceX filed with US regulators Wednesday included details about a lucrative deal to lend GPUs to a major AI rival.
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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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Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.
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The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.
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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

By: Paresh Dave
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
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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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Everyone at the Musk v. Altman Trial Is Using Fancy Butt Cushions

By: Paresh Dave
The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.
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OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
In Musk v. Altman, the company claimed a remarkable trophy was physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.
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Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.
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Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
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Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.
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Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO

By: Paresh Dave
Activists, a leading labor union, and a big retirement fund are asking challenging questions about what’s expected to be the largest-ever stock market debut.
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‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk

By: Paresh Dave, Maxwell Zeff
OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk in 2017 and subsequent efforts to remove several board members.
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Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’

By: Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.
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Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age

By: Paresh Dave
A new generation of satellite startups in San Francisco is racing to capitalize on recent technological breakthroughs in space-based data collection and communications.
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This Indigenous Language Survived Russian Occupation. Can It Survive YouTube?

By: Paresh Dave
YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek out videos in Kyrgyz, creating a cultural shift that concerns some parents.
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