Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush
“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,” Teamsters general president Sean M. O’Brien...
All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025
Lauren Goode: I don’t remember that. Zoë Schiffer: I think she did. Michael Calore: I don’t know why everybody’s looking at me. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Mike,...
The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
Next year will be Big Tech’s finale. Critique of Big Tech is now common sense, voiced by a motley spectrum that unites opposing political parties, mainstream...
Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented,...
Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
Lauren Goode: It sounds like you’re a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the junior college in Palo Alto in...
Join Us for the WIRED Big Interview Event
WIRED’s Big Interview has long been the definitive source for in-depth conversations with the executives, scientists, political leaders, and creators shaping the rapidly shifting future. Now,...
What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan
Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman—celebrated the IPO of Airbnb, a company he was heavily...
AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do
Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world...
‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza
Over the past year, Cisco publicly looked like one of the few tech companies that had avoided internal backlash over its response to the war in...
A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot
Eric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project and is founding director of the...