Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs
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 com...
Why thinning a forest could get you more drinking water
You might appreciate snowpack as something to sled, ski, or snowboard on. But beyond the slopes, vast masses of sn...
OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees ha...
‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix
Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at your phone.Brian B...
You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists
Claude just showed us what replaced it.VISUAL 1: The Dissolved Interface. Generated with Gemini.Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to prepare...
Kristi Noem all but killed FEMA. Will her departure save it?
During the year she spent leading the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, Kristi Noem faced a torrent of...
ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town.In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to ...
The hidden potential of Trump’s critical minerals stockpile
Last year, the Trump administration appeared to give up on the future of renewable energy entirely. It launched an...
Online harassment is entering its AI era
Regardless of whether or not the agent’s owner told it to write a hit piece on Shambaugh, it still seems to have managed on its ow...
Electrifying a Bay Area railway made it faster, cleaner, and more frequent
Adina Levin took Caltrain to San Francisco from her home in Menlo Park one night last month. A 40-minute ride on a...