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08.03.2025
Rather than buy bitcoin directly, Donald Trump’s plan calls for holding the US government’s current bitcoin assets in reserve—and creates a separate stockpile for other crypto coins.
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce, WIRED has learned. How? By deploying a new custom chatbot.
In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partners for search placement—and divest its dominant Chrome browser.
Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
07.03.2025
On “Uncanny Valley” this week, our hosts talk about the pronatalism movement, and how the push to increase birth rates is trending among some of Silicon Valley's biggest and wealthiest names.
OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle to replicate Starlink's coverage and usability.
06.03.2025
Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency.
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.
05.03.2025
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, experts told WIRED.
When US president Donald Trump picked out a handful of cryptocurrencies for potential inclusion in a national strategic reserve, he sparked a trading frenzy—and questions about who stands to benefit.
The imposition of tariffs on Mexico and Canada represents a violation of the USMCA and could trigger a tariff war, experts say.
04.03.2025
New SEC filings from pharmaceutical companies reveal Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting measures could slow drug research and delay FDA approvals.
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
Long before TikTok refugees discovered Red Note, Candise Lin was giving Americans a portal into the wild, hilarious world of Chinese social media.
Amazon’s drones met more resistance in College Station, Texas, than in any other city in the US. Now they’re gone—and a sense of peace and privacy has been restored.
01.03.2025
DOGE claims that a government agency has nearly three times as many software licenses as employees. Experts say there are plenty of good reasons for that.
The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict.
28.02.2025
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
27.02.2025
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.
26.02.2025
A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be “dead in the water.”
A spate of abductions has sent crypto executives and wealthy investors in search of ways to protect themselves.
25.02.2025
Manufacturers already have the data. LLM-powered tools could help them make use of it.
Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.
21.02.2025
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
This week, the “Uncanny Valley” hosts discuss the lawsuits, bidding wars, and power plays over OpenAI.
20.02.2025
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump administration.
WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language tutor for travelers.
19.02.2025
Argentinian president Javier Milei is facing calls for impeachment and a possible criminal investigation for his role in the rise and fast collapse of a memecoin.
Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes.
Did bureaucrats in the US plot to cut the crypto industry out of the banking system? An investigation begins.
After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she's working on.
15.02.2025
Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.
14.02.2025
On this week’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we assess the state of swiping.
The move reportedly comes after US attorney general Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.
The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
On this special episode of "Uncanny Valley," WIRED’s politics editor and global editorial director catch us up on Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump Administration.
12.02.2025
The company says artificial intelligence could help surface jobs that remain hidden from typical search queries.