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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

By: Steven Levy
Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.
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Steve Jobs’ Early Apple Items Are Going Up for Auction—Along With His Bow Ties

By: Steven Levy
Some of the objects came from Steve Jobs’ childhood bedroom. They’re being made available by his stepbrother, John Chovanec.
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Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup

By: Steven Levy
AI startups say the promise of turning dazzling models into useful products is harder than anyone expected. Three founders discuss what it takes.
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It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself

By: Steven Levy
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
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Want a Fortell Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?

By: Steven Levy
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears.
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There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob

By: Steven Levy
As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?
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In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

By: Michael Calore, Caroline Haskins, Steven Levy
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.
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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen

By: Steven Levy
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.
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Alex Karp Goes to War

By: Steven Levy
Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
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Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’

By: Steven Levy
In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them.
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The Man Who Invented AGI

By: Steven Levy
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.
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Why AI Breaks Bad

By: Steven Levy
Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.
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