Exclusive: Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down
Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of dating app Hinge, is consciously uncoupling from his app. Hinge’s president and chief marketing officer Jackie Jantos—recently named one of Fast Company’s…
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Job openings barely improved in October, hitting 7.7 million
U.S. job openings barely budged in October, coming in at 7.7 million with ongoing uncertainty over the direction of the American economy. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that…
Home insurance rates have gone up for 6 million people. How climate change and Trump are making the affordability crisis worse
If your home insurance rate has spiked lately, you’re not alone. And President Trump’s policies could make it even more expensive. Since 2021, at least 6 million policyholders across the…
Google faces a new antitrust probe in Europe over content it uses for AI
Google faces fresh antitrust scrutiny from European Union regulators, who opened an investigation Tuesday into the company’s use of online content for its artificial intelligence models…
Student loans could resume for millions as Trump administration moves to end SAVE pause
Some bad news for Americans with student loans. The Trump administration’s Department of Education announced on Tuesday that millions of borrowers who are enrolled in the Saving on a…
PepsiCo to cut prices and 20% of products under a new deal
PepsiCo plans to cut prices and eliminate some of its products under a deal with an activist investor announced Monday. The Purchase, New York-based company, which makes Cheetos, Tostitos,…
Trump allows Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips to China
President Donald Trump said Monday that he would allow Nvidia to sell an advanced type of computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China.…
Is CoreWeave the AI boom’s canary in a coal mine?
CoreWeave stock dropped 8% Monday after the AI cloud computing company announced plans to raise another $2 billion, this time through convertible debt, to finance its rapid build-out of…
Paramount’s rival bid for Warner Bros. puts CNN and more cable networks back in limbo
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.…
OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce,…
OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce,…
Trump heads to Pennsylvania rally on the affordability crisis. Here’s what to know
President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania—shifting an argument made in Oval Office…
Trump vows to block state AI regulations, calling them a threat to innovation
President Donald Trump just announced that he plans to issue an executive order this week to set federal rules around artificial intelligence—and prevent states from setting their own. “I…
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
OpenAI has allegedly become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could have on the economy, four people familiar with the matter…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also…
Netflix-Warner deal would accelerate streaming’s Big Three domination
When it comes to major U.S. industries, three tends to be the magic number. Historically, auto manufacturing was long dominated by Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors—the so-called “Big…
Maybe Spotify knows more about you than you do
Spotify has a knack for mining your listening data into something fun and shareable rather than weird and creepy for its annual “Wrapped” feature. This year, it outdid itself. The 2025…
Architects are embracing this ancient building technique to combat climate change—and soulless design
In the English countryside, a new project has emerged from the landscape—quite literally. Rammed Earth House, a residential estate by London-based Tuckey Design Studio, combines renovated…
Walmart stock is making a historic change today. Here’s why WMT is moving from the NYSE to the Nasdaq
It’s a historic day for both Walmart and the Nasdaq. Today, America’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer begins trading on the Nasdaq after its shares spent over half a century on the New…
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: ‘We Are a City on the Rise’
I first met Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s newly minted mayor, about five minutes before we walked onstage at WIRED’s Big Interview event, held in his city last week. Lurie’s team let me…
Federal Housing Administration ban shifts non-permanent resident mortgage locks from boom to bust
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Earlier in the spring, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)…
Turning the tide on China’s dominance of the rare earth market is possible. Here’s what it would take
Rare earth minerals are so ubiquitous and critical to much of today’s technology, that tonight’s dinner might not have made it to the table without them. And according to USA Rare Earth…
Why the U.S. Institute of Peace is now the ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’
President Donald Trump has always been a master marketer. He is particularly adept at lending his name to products and buildings, which has proven to be a lucrative business. Now in…
America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI
One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator…