The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private authority—and confrontationally so, with a sense of danger and…
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Guanyu Xu’s Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo
Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the D.I.Y. virtuoso Jay Som, Alexandra Schwartz’s Shakespeare-movie picks, and more. Source link
The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination
The day after the campaign launched, Sadeghi and I had briefly sparred online. He’d been on X showing off a phone app where parents can click through traits like eye color and hair color.…
Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database
An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to new research reviewed by WIRED. The…
The difference between genuine authenticity and performed authenticity means everything
Authenticity is currency. You can spend it recklessly and go broke, or invest it strategically and build wealth. Most leaders are choosing bankruptcy without even realizing it. Right now,…
The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin
All this means that actors, whether well-resourced organizations or grassroots collectives, have a clear path to deploying politically persuasive AI at scale. Early demonstrations have…
What’s it like to avoid all media all day long for months?
When I was cycling across the country on my bike, I spent anywhere from six to nine hours a day in the saddle—for almost three solid months. It made a lot of people wonder: What did you…
Your company needs a neurodiversity coach
Before becoming a coach for neurodiverse individuals with ADHD, Justine Capelle Collis had a successful advertising career. She worked in Australia and the UK, and also across the US and…
AI is reshaping work. It could also spark an entrepreneurial boom
For a while now, we’ve been hearing warnings about AI eliminating jobs. First, it was only at the fringes. But now it’s starting to bite into roles once thought untouchable. It isn’t just…
The high-stakes politics of exclamation points
When Jon LaMantia, a Long Island-based business reporter, was in journalism school, his professor drilled one rule into his students: you get two exclamation points a year and no more. “So…
Watch the Highlights From WIRED’s Big Interview Event Right Here
WIRED’s Big Interview series prides itself on being the place for engaging conversations with political leaders, creators, executives, and scientists moving the world forward. In 2024, we…
It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself
Alex Komoroske has always been at odds with Big Tech’s darker side. Though he cut his product-management teeth at Google and Stripe, he was never comfortable with the industry’s increasing…
Circle’s Jeremy Allaire: We’re Building an ‘Economic OS’ for the AI Era
The global economy is about to undergo a major shift—and it’s going to be centered around cryptocurrency, according to Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, a software company that…
How the Macy’s CEO sees retail in a world of tarriffs and shifting consumer habits (and how he gets ready for the parade)
It’s been a tumultuous year for the legacy retailer, shaped by new tariffs, shifting consumer habits, and the constant flip between “wartime” and “peacetime” leadership. Macy’s Inc.…
Exclusive: 20 years in, this OG YouTube channel is opening a new studio to support its growth
Twenty years ago, not too long after Youtube itself launched, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla started uploading videos to the platform. What started as two teenagers trying to make each…
Pete Hegseth, in the Tank
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Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI
The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry’s biggest players doesn’t agree. At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic…
What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents
Michael Calore: The inscrutable billboards. Lauren Goode: I was just like, "What? No, keep me in the land of Burrata and Caravaggio." Michael Calore: Well, Lauren, I'm sorry to tell you…
Meta stock price: META rises on report that Zuckerberg will cut up to 30% of metaverse division
Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) rose on Thursday after Bloomberg reported the technology company was planning to cut spending across its division by 10%, with as much as 30% cuts to…
Spotify Wrapped 2025: Eagerly checking your ‘listening age’? Everyone else is, too
The numbers are in for Spotify Wrapped: After the streaming music app dropped its popular year-in-review recap for 2025, the company said it has already seen a huge increase in user…
Weekly claims for unemployment benefits drop to 3-year low
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years during Thanksgiving week, potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision…
Trump rolls back Biden-era fuel economy rules, slashing targets for 2031
As the rest of the world speeds ahead toward an electrified future, the U.S. is doubling down on gas-powered cars. President Trump announced a proposal this week to slash stricter fuel…
Trump will discuss the inflation crisis next week in Philadelphia
President Donald Trump plans to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to highlight his efforts to reduce inflation even as fears mount about a worsening job market and amid signs that…
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs…