WIRED
Today's Picks
Curating...

The Tesla Influencers Leaving the ‘Cult’
The EV manufacturer is supported by a robust online community. But Elon Musk’s politics and overblown hype about Full Self-Driving are turning some loyalists away.
Wall Street Is Already Betting on Prediction Markets
As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial institutions are embracing the industry anyway.
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people’s Signal accounts, and more.
Amid a paralyzing breach of medical tech firm Stryker, the group has come to represent Iran's use of “hacktivism” as cover for chaotic, retaliatory state-sponsored cyberattacks.

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone
All the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP
A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.

The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.



THINGS FALL APART
It's not enough to build things. You also have to tear them down. WIRED commissioned five stories about decommissioning, from EVs and internet cables to supercomputers and space stations.

23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century

The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025

AI of a Thousand Faces

Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
Originally published July 2022: What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, and a doula have in common? They’re all being paid by an ad-tech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.

Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town

Mother Earth Mother Board






















.jpg)






.jpg)









