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Did China’s Moonshot AI Steal From Anthropic?; OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models

2

Stanford Grads Say Big Tech Is Creating a 'Modern-Day Draft’

3

Why Apple Sued OpenAI; New York Takes On Data Centers; Cyclosporiasis Outbreak

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Why Apple Sued OpenAI; New York Takes On Data Centers; Cyclosporiasis Outbreak

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We Interviewed a Puppet and It Made A Lot of Sense

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Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X; Trump Phone Review; Maine's Senate Race Implodes

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From Mixed Signals: Bluesky COO Rose Wang on building a better social network

8

Bernie Sanders Wants You to Own Half the Profits from AI

9

Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie; Data Center Workers Are Fighting Back

10

Until Trump Fires Her, Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom

11

Meta's AI Workers Are Revolting; Peter Thiel's Secret Society; Will Trump Free SBF?

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Tim Heidecker Thinks Twitter Should Be a World Heritage Site

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Why Anthropic Shut Down Its Best AI (Special News Update)

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Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares; Inside the Knicks' Owner's Surveillance Machine

15

Trump Foe Mounts Competitive Senate Bid in Florida

16

The AI IPO Race Gets Weird; Elon Musk Sued By DOGE Whistleblower; Instagram's Hacking Incident

17

The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

18

How Crypto Scam Compounds Use Romance to Make Billions

19

How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People

20

Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search Is Over; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

21

Tom Steyer Makes His Case for Billionaires

22

Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

23

The Creators of Hacks Really, Really, Really Hate AI

24

Trump Pivots On AI Regulation; What Is Hantavirus?; Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office

25

What’s the ‘Chicken Shop Date’ Creator’s Secret? Creative Control

26

Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

27

‘Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto’ Says Actor Ben McKenzie

28

Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

29

LegalEagle, the Internet’s Favorite Lawyer, Makes Sense of ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’

30

Artemis II Astronaut Reflects Upon Return

31

Kara Swisher Is Trying To Live Forever

32

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own

33

OpenAI and Musk Fight Again; DOJ Mishandles Voter Data; Artemis II Comes Home

34

Can UpScrolled Keep Up With a Surge in Users?

35

Iran Targets U.S. Tech; Polymarket’s Bar Flop; Trump's Plans for Midterms

36

The Myth That AI Will Replace Language Learning

37

Trump's 80s Movie Approach to Foreign Policy w/ Chris Hayes

38

Nvidia’s “Super Bowl of AI”; Tesla Disappoints Fans; Meta’s VR Metaverse Is Over

39

Uncovering an AI Journalist

40

Can Anthropic Win Its Lawsuit?; War Memes; AI Comes for VCs Jobs

41

Iran Strikes in the AI Era; Prediction Markets Ethics; Paramount Beats Netflix

42

BIG INTV: Open AI’s Former Safety Lead Calls Out Erotica Claims (Rerun)

43

Pentagon v. ‘Woke’ Anthropic; Agentic v. Mimetic; Trump v. the State of the Union

44

BIG INTV: Melinda French Gates on Secrets: ‘Live a Truthful Life, Then You Don’t Have Any’ (Re-Run)

45

AI Researcher Resignations; Bots Hiring Humans; Evie Magazine’s Party

46

ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans; Palantir Employees’ Ethical Concerns; AI Assistants

47

Tech Elites in the Epstein Files; Musk’s Mega Merger; Crypto Scam Compound

48

BIG INTV: Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Says He's Still a Techno-Optimist

49

BIG INTV: Silicon Valley Tech Workers’ Campaign to Get ICE Out of US Cities

50

Minneapolis Misinformation; TikTok’s New Owners; Moltbot Hype

51

Trump Davos Drama; AI Midterms; ChatGPT's Last Resort

52

BIG INTV: Wikipedia's Founder on Holding the Line in a Post Fact World

53

BIG INTV: Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’

54

BIG INTV: Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’

55

BIG INTV: CTO Elizabeth Stone On The Future of Netflix: “Personalized, Interactive, Immersive”

56

WIRED Roundup: The Five Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

57

Introducing A New Chapter for Uncanny Valley

58

BIG INTV: AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs

59

WIRED Roundup: Making Art In the AI Era, With Wicked’s Jon. M Chu

60

AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition

61

BIG INTV: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: ‘We Are a City on the Rise’

62

WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, Amazon AI Releases

63

What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

64

BIG INTV: Melinda French Gates on Secrets: ‘Live a Truthful Life, Then You Don’t Have Any’

65

WIRED Roundup: Epstein Files Fallout, NVIDIA Earnings, Gemini 3 Release

66

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

67

BIG INTV: Joe Weisenthal Has Predictions About How the AI Bubble Will Burst

68

WIRED Roundup: AI Romantic Affairs; Google Sues Text Scammers; DHS’s Privacy Breach

69

In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

70

BIG INTV: Open AI’s Former Safety Lead Calls Out Erotica Claims

71

WIRED Roundup: Zuckerberg’s Illegal School, Nepal’s Discord Revolution, Fandom in Politics

72

The Four Criteria for a Tech Bubble

73

BIG INTV: Kara Swisher Says Silicon Valley's Biggest Lie is That They Care About People

74

WIRED Roundup: Grokipedia, Real Estate AI Videos, Alpha School

75

How to Hack a Poker Game

76

BIG INTV: Why Nicholas Thompson Made a Custom GPT to Run Faster

77

WIRED Roundup: Protest Frogs, Google Bedbugs, AI Psychosis

78

How Data Centers Actually Work

79

BIG INTV: Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor

80

WIRED Roundup: Satellites Data Leak, Cybertrucks, Politicized Federal Workers

81

The New Power of Far-Right Influencers

82

BIG INTV: Mark Cuban Would Still Have Dinner With Donald Trump

83

WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble?

84

How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

85

BIG INTV: Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone

86

WIRED Roundup: The New Fake World of OpenAI’s Social Video App

87

Your Delivery Robot Is Here

88

BIG INTV: Lareina Yee Discusses Breakthrough Technologies

89

WIRED Roundup: Groypers Going Mainstream

90

Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?

91

BIG INTV: Signal's Meredith Whittaker Says AI Is Just A Branding Term

92

WIRED Roundup: The Right Embraces Cancel Culture

93

Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here

94

BIG INTV: Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

95

WIRED Roundup: How Charlie Kirk Changed Conservative Media

96

BIG INTV: Hasan Piker Says He Will Never Run for Office

97

Are Dating Apps Over?

98

Where's the Fun in AI Gambling?

99

BIG INTV: The Onion's Ben Collins On How The Truth Can Pay Dividends

100

WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain

101

This Is How You Log Off

102

BIG INTV: Alexis Ohanian Says We Can Build A Less Toxic Internet

103

WIRED Roundup: Chip Manufacturers Bonanza

104

How To Become a Vibe Coder

105

Introducing: The BIG INTERVIEW with WIRED's Katie Drummond

106

WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

107

Palantir: The Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley

108

WIRED Roundup: OpenAI Announces New Government Partnership

109

The Vibes-Based Pricing of "Pro" AI Software

110

WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

111

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

112

WIRED Roundup: Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on D.C?

113

The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants

114

What’s Behind Gen Z’s Sex Recession?

115

How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

116

DOGE 2.0

117

You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst

118

The 911 Calls Inside ICE Detention Centers

119

In Sam Altman We Trust?

120

A Former DOGE Staffer Speaks Out

121

Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight

122

Seriously, What Is 'Superintelligence'?

123

The Chatbot Disinfo Inflaming the L.A. Protests

124

Unpacking AI Agents

125

One, Big, Beautiful Breakup

126

Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration

127

Let's Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating In The Classroom

128

Why 3D Printing an Untraceable ‘Ghost Gun’ is Easier Than Ever

129

Is Elon Musk Really Stepping Back from DOGE?

130

The Hottest Topic At This Year's Pornhub Awards? Censorship

131

Trump, Cryptocurrency, and the Real Winners and Losers

132

Why Is The Trump Administration Having So Much Trouble Keeping Their Comms Private?

133

The Dangerous Decline in Vaccination Rates

134

A Tariff Standoff with China, Power Outages and the End of Christmas

135

Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border

136

Is Telsa on the Outs in China?

137

How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests

138

Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

139

What The Actual Tariff

140

Why the Market Is Going Crazy This Week

141

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian? (Re-Run)

142

Good Quests, Christianity & Caviar Bumps

143

Who's Elon Musk’s Biggest Fan? His Mom

144

DOGE is Doing the Opposite of Government Auditing

145

What's Lost When the Human Drivers Are Gone?

146

Why Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown

147

Do We Need To Have More Babies?

148

Elon’s Twitter Playbook at DOGE

149

Deepfakes, Tesla Backlash and Chips Chips Chips

150

WIRED News Update: DOGE’s Many Conflicts of Interest & Elon’s Weekend Email Chaos

151

The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

152

WIRED News Update: The Watergate-inspired Law That’s Fighting DOGE

153

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

154

WIRED News Update: Keeping Tabs on DOGE

155

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, But Can It Last?

156

The World According to Marc Andreessen

157

Zuck Ends Fact-Checking. What Could Go Wrong?

158

We Turned Our Lives Over to AI Assistants

159

Musk Takes Washington

160

From Critics at Large: Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?

161

All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech

162

Is This The Year We Quit Social Media?

163

In Sam Altman We Trust?

164

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

165

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

166

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

167

Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

168

Welcome to Uncanny Valley!

169

Some Personal News

170

How Should We Feel About Ring?

171

Semaglutide for the People

172

Is Underwater AI Any Cleaner?

173

Don't Feed the Neighbors' Kids

174

The First Real AI iPhone

175

Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging

176

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

177

The ‘Wild West’ of EV Charging

178

Your Photos Aren’t Real

179

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

180

Dating Games

181

The Ocean's Tipping Point

182

The Blurred Reality of Human-Washing

183

Semaglutide for the People

184

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

185

The Rise and Fall of Juul

186

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

187

Thinking Different About Apple AI

188

Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews

189

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

190

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

191

The End of Google Search As We Know It

192

How Black Twitter Defined Culture

193

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

194

We Demystify the Internet's Acronyms

195

A Chat About Airchat

196

From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

197

Shopping for a New Social Feed

198

DOJ Calls Out Apple in the Group Chat

199

A 3-Body Podcast

200

The TikTok Ban

201

Google’s ‘Woke AI’ Problem

202

The Non-Techie's Guide to Nvidia

203

Tech Workers Are Stressed Out

204

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

205

Several People Are Talking

206

Apple’s Uncanny Valley Pro

207

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

208

AI Hits the Campaign Trail

209

C’ES la Vie

210

Abortion Pill Orders Are Soaring

211

Live on Stage: Reid Hoffman and Fei-Fei Li

212

Oops, All Recommendations!

213

Taylor Swift’s Pro-Russia Doppelganger

214

Blue Bubbles Versus Green Bubbles

215

Journalists in Studio Getting Coffee

216

Geoffrey Hinton: ‘It’s Far Too Late’ to Stop Artificial Intelligence

217

How Three Teens Broke the Internet

218

Oh, the Humaneity

219

Happy 1-Year Muskiversary

220

23andMe and You

221

Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It

222

Business Wars: Living in an Artificial World

223

Searching for a Better Google

224

Meta’s Sound and Vision

225

Alexa Gets an AI Makeover

226

Your Life, Your iPhone

227

We Robloxed So You Don’t Have To

228

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

229

The Case of the Not-Stolen AirPods

230

The Cruelest Summer

231

Nobody’s Driving That Car!

232

Farm-to-Table Internet

233

The Future of Hollywood

234

Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans

235

Stop Trying to Make New Twitter Happen

236

Have a Nice Future: Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

237

Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

238

Shop Talk

239

What the Truck, Elon?

240

Apple’s Vision Quest

241

AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)

242

How to Get Started Biking

243

Let’s Get Swole

244

Google Disrupts Itself

245

Nothin’ but Bluesky

246

This Episode Is Nuts

247

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

248

Send in the Clones

249

Like, Follow, Subscribe to Cars

250

Sidewalk Surfin’

251

The Sacred Mountain of Chip-Making

252

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

253

ChatGPT in Schools

254

We Really Recommend This Episode

255

Netflix Is No Longer Chill

256

Real Humans Chat About Chatbots

257

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

258

Have We Reached Peak Smartphone?

259

Why the Kids Love TikTok Search

260

We Need to Talk About Your Stove

261

Oh, Deere!

262

CES 2023: We Live Here Now

263

Is It 2023 Yet?

264

Plastic Rap

265

The iPod of Crypto

266

ChatGPT for You and Me

267

What the Hell is BNPL?

268

The State of the Smart Kitchen

269

What Happens if Twitter Gets Hacked?

270

Demystifying Mastodon

271

Tweelon

272

Plastic Rap

273

OK, Car Computer

274

Zuckerberg's Innovation Dilemma

275

Life in Pixels

276

The State of the Smart Kitchen

277

Row Row Row Yourself

278

Visualizing VR’s Future

279

Welcome to Dynamic Island

280

How YouTube's Tumultuous Past Will Shape Its Future

281

How to Get Your Climate Tax Credits

282

Tractor Hacks

283

The Weird Phone Future

284

NFT Frames

285

Reel Talk About Instagram

286

Zucka Kappa Meta

287

Too Cool for Juul

288

Seriously, What Is the Metaverse?

289

The Zoomification of Slack

290

Streaming TV’s Many Possible Futures

291

Apple In Real Life

292

Texting Is Broken

293

WTF Is Web3?

294

How to Get Started Biking

295

Google Gadgets Galore

296

Kara Swisher's Take on Twitter

297

Snap’s New Drone Takes Flight

298

What Would Elon’s Twitter Look Like?

299

Browse Better

300

Peloton Bets Big on Body-Tracking

301

Who's Behind the Okta Hack?

302

How You DAOing?

303

When Facial Recognition Tech Is Wrong

304

And Apple Marches On

305

Swift Sanctions

306

Tracking Apple

307

Samsung Gonna Samsung

308

Hitting Pause on Spotify

309

Help! My Family is Stuck in the Metaverse

310

Road to the Future

311

Dry If You Might

312

Live From CES 2022

313

Goodbye to All That

314

WTF Is Web3?

315

A Conversation with Neal Stephenson

316

What an Augmented World

317

Shipping and Shopping

318

Let’s Get Meta

319

Big Macs, New Pixels

320

Facebook's Uncertain Future

321

Andrew Yang on Micromobility

322

Amazon Bots

323

Scratching the Surface

324

iPhoning It In

325

Boosters and Mandates

326

Power Problems

327

I Never Metaverse I Didn’t Like

328

Pixel Party

329

Apple’s Photo-Scanning Tech Explained

330

I Can Haz Memes

331

Inside Black Twitter

332

Bezos in Space

333

Why WeWork Didn't Work

334

I Bike, You Bike, Ebike

335

Paging Dr. Algorithm

336

Into the Great Wide Open

337

Cutting to the Core of Apple

338

Vaccine Incentives, From Donuts to Dollars

339

Oh, the Huemanity

340

Android Dreams

341

Muchos Bezos

342

The Truth About Section 230

343

Leave No Trace

344

Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth

345

500th Episode Extravaganza

346

Breaking Up, Hooking Up

347

Free Shipping

348

Reentry Anxiety

349

Future Computing the Facebook Way

350

WTF Is an NFT?

351

Facing Our AR Future

352

Gadgets on Mars

353

How to Get a PlayStation 5

354

Who Let the Doge Out

355

Clubhouse’s Elon Moment

356

Your Covid Vaccine Questions, Answered

357

Reboot Your Brain

358

CES Wrap-Up

359

Facebook and Twitter Finally Respond to Trump

360

Our 2021 Predictions

361

Gift Rap

362

Ride Share’s Road Ahead

363

Pedal Revolution

364

Apple Chips Ahoy

365

Console Wars

366

Car Talk

367

Google and the Government

368

The iPhones 12

369

Battling Burnout

370

Invasion of the Home Drone

371

The TikTok Dance

372

Apple Bundles Up

373

Connected Cardio

374

Tech the Vote

375

Alexa, Play My Alibi

376

Let’s Talk About Texts

377

The Foldable Future

378

We Love Cheap Phones

379

Amazon’s Hidden Prime Secrets

380

Tick Tock, TikTok

381

Get WIRED: Citizen and the Bizarre World of Live-Streamed Crime

382

Introducing: Get WIRED

383

I Stream, You Stream

384

I Can't Stop Doomscrolling

385

Home Bodies

386

Arrested Developer Event

387

Inside the eBananas Scandal

388

When Can I See You Again?

389

Tech and the Police State

390

Trump v. Twitter

391

Remote Desktop

392

The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero

393

On the Road Again

394

The Argument for Making End-of-Life Decisions Early

395

Open For Business

396

Will Contact Tracing Work?

397

The Race to Make a Vaccine

398

Supply Demand

399

Pandemic Panic

400

The Generation Gap

401

Socially Distanced

402

Is Facebook Forever?

403

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

404

The Anti-Bias Bot

405

Smartphone Launch Events Are Silly

406

The Virus and the Vote

407

Everything Old Is New Again

408

Open Wide for Mouth Tech

409

One Wheel, Zero Buttons

410

Best of CES

411

Sex Toys and Toothbrushes

412

Our Favorite Stuff from 2019, Plus Our 2020 Predictions

413

The Case for Cassava

414

Going Places

415

Life After Facebook

416

Finally, We Can ‘Like’ Apple’s Keyboards Again

417

When Big Tech Buys Your Darlings

418

Deep Listening

419

YouTube Creators Want More From YouTube

420

Facial Recognition Tech Is Coming to a School Near You

421

It's Time to Put Down Your Phone

422

Panos Panay Says Microsoft’s New Phone Isn’t a Phone

423

Spot, the Robot Dog, Learns New Tricks

424

Your DNA Belongs on the Blockchain

425

iPhones to the Max

426

How Uber Went Down in Flames

427

Why It’s So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook

428

You’ve Got Microplastics

429

How Google’s Secrecy Lead to Company Turmoil

430

Amazon's Quest for World Domination

431

Bumps in the Road to Our Robo-Car Future

432

Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is Flawed

433

Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?

434

Facebook's Libra and the Future of Money

435

Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech

436

A Genius Move

437

The Biggest News From E3

438

Everything From Apple’s WWDC

439

Making Surfing More Sustainable

440

Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma

441

YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal

442

If You Build It, They Will I/O

443

The Making of Adam Savage

444

Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets

445

What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?

446

Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast

447

Reporting From Syria

448

The Case for Male Birth Control

449

Game On at Google

450

Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech

451

How to Quit Your Tech Job

452

Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies

453

You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em

454

The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames

455

The App Smackdown

456

Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here

457

Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers

458

The Best of CES

459

The Year in Tech, in One Word

460

Apocalypse Now