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Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restricti...
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Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over mil...
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus...
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Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on...
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AI Will Never Be Conscious
In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it jus...
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Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fi...
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine
Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could co...
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They Bet Against Trump’s Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions
After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line fo...
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Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists
House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to...
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An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years
A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the...
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Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling
The president signed an executive order implementing 10 percent global tariffs after calling the justices who...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Private DC Club Has Mysterious Ties to an Ex-Cop With a Controversial Past
The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED...
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The War Over Prediction Markets Is Just Getting Started
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and...
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‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok
On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer l...
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Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
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Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernizat...
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This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up
Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated i...
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The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work
WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their p...