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Power Play

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers

The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.

By Molly Taft

Empty Nest

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

By Paresh Dave and Dhruv Mehrotra

Best Frenemies

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

By Isabella Ward

Data Goblin

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

By Reece Rogers

Joy Ride

Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis

By Aarian Marshall

Ruff Day

Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs

By Jason Parham

Change This Setting

What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That

By David Nield

Events

Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

By WIRED Staff

Reviews

Product Review

I Put Thermacell’s Upgraded Mosquito Barrier to the Test

Broad Banned

The US Ban on Foreign-Made Routers Gets Another Exception

Amazon Adventure

How to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Wares on Amazon

Product Review

The Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Has a Health Score for That

Subscriber Exclusives

Kernel Panic

Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Backchannel

If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already

Model Behavior

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

Inner Loop

Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon

AI Lab

I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas

Politics

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AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race

The Leftist Split Over AI Doom

The EU Wants to Break Up Kids and Their Chatbots

Security

An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang

Meta’s Copyright System Is Being Weaponized Against Albanian Protesters

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

Science

Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

Business

Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

Gear News

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Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document

Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear

Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream

Reviews

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I’m a Lifelong Bird-Watcher. These Are the Gifts I’d Actually Want

I’ve Been Hunting Deals for 13 Years. These Early Prime Day Discounts Are Actually Worth It

Top Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for September 2026

Culture

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Fast & Furious Takes a Victory Lap With a Ferociously Fun Roller Coaster

AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’

‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag

What to Watch

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Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before Avengers: Doomsday

Podcast: Uncanny Valley

Sam Altman chief executive officer and cofounder of OpenAI Inc. during the 2026 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco...

Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like

Join WIRED@Night for an Uncanny Valley Live Recording on Women, Tech, and Power

If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel

The Big Story

Social Media

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

By Ej Dickson