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1

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

2

Trump Foe Mounts Competitive Senate Bid in Florida

3

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

4

The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

5

How Crypto Scam Compounds Use Romance to Make Billions

6

How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People

7

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

8

Tom Steyer Makes His Case for Billionaires

9

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

10

The Creators of Hacks Really, Really, Really Hate AI

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

Artemis II Astronaut Reflects Upon Return

18

Kara Swisher Is Trying To Live Forever

19

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own

20

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

21

Can UpScrolled Keep Up With a Surge in Users?

22

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

23

The Myth That AI Will Replace Language Learning

24

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

25

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

26

Uncovering an AI Journalist

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

Minneapolis Misinformation; TikTok’s New Owners; Moltbot Hype

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

Introducing A New Chapter for Uncanny Valley

45

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

46

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

47

AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition

48

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

49

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

50

What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

51

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

52

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

53

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

54

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

55

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

56

In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

57

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

58

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

59

The Four Criteria for a Tech Bubble

60

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

61

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

62

How to Hack a Poker Game

63

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

64

WIRED Roundup: Protest Frogs, Google Bedbugs, AI Psychosis

65

How Data Centers Actually Work

66

BIG INTV: Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor

67

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

68

The New Power of Far-Right Influencers

69

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

70

WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble?

71

How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

72

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

73

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

74

Your Delivery Robot Is Here

75

BIG INTV: Lareina Yee Discusses Breakthrough Technologies

76

WIRED Roundup: Groypers Going Mainstream

77

Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?

78

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

79

WIRED Roundup: The Right Embraces Cancel Culture

80

Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here

81

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

82

WIRED Roundup: How Charlie Kirk Changed Conservative Media

83

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

84

Are Dating Apps Over?

85

Where's the Fun in AI Gambling?

86

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

87

WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain

88

This Is How You Log Off

89

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

90

WIRED Roundup: Chip Manufacturers Bonanza

91

How To Become a Vibe Coder

92

Introducing: The BIG INTERVIEW with WIRED's Katie Drummond

93

WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

94

Palantir: The Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley

95

WIRED Roundup: OpenAI Announces New Government Partnership

96

The Vibes-Based Pricing of "Pro" AI Software

97

WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

98

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

99

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

100

The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants

101

What’s Behind Gen Z’s Sex Recession?

102

How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

103

DOGE 2.0

104

You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst

105

The 911 Calls Inside ICE Detention Centers

106

In Sam Altman We Trust?

107

A Former DOGE Staffer Speaks Out

108

Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight

109

Seriously, What Is 'Superintelligence'?

110

The Chatbot Disinfo Inflaming the L.A. Protests

111

Unpacking AI Agents

112

One, Big, Beautiful Breakup

113

Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration

114

Let's Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating In The Classroom

115

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

116

Is Elon Musk Really Stepping Back from DOGE?

117

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

118

Trump, Cryptocurrency, and the Real Winners and Losers

119

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

120

The Dangerous Decline in Vaccination Rates

121

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

122

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

123

Is Telsa on the Outs in China?

124

How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests

125

Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

126

What The Actual Tariff

127

Why the Market Is Going Crazy This Week

128

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian? (Re-Run)

129

Good Quests, Christianity & Caviar Bumps

130

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

131

DOGE is Doing the Opposite of Government Auditing

132

What's Lost When the Human Drivers Are Gone?

133

Why Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown

134

Do We Need To Have More Babies?

135

Elon’s Twitter Playbook at DOGE

136

Deepfakes, Tesla Backlash and Chips Chips Chips

137

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

138

The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

139

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

140

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

141

WIRED News Update: Keeping Tabs on DOGE

142

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, But Can It Last?

143

The World According to Marc Andreessen

144

Zuck Ends Fact-Checking. What Could Go Wrong?

145

We Turned Our Lives Over to AI Assistants

146

Musk Takes Washington

147

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

148

All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech

149

Is This The Year We Quit Social Media?

150

In Sam Altman We Trust?

151

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

152

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

153

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

154

Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

155

Welcome to Uncanny Valley!

156

Some Personal News

157

How Should We Feel About Ring?

158

Semaglutide for the People

159

Is Underwater AI Any Cleaner?

160

Don't Feed the Neighbors' Kids

161

The First Real AI iPhone

162

Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging

163

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

164

The ‘Wild West’ of EV Charging

165

Your Photos Aren’t Real

166

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

167

Dating Games

168

The Ocean's Tipping Point

169

The Blurred Reality of Human-Washing

170

Semaglutide for the People

171

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

172

The Rise and Fall of Juul

173

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

174

Thinking Different About Apple AI

175

Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews

176

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

177

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

178

The End of Google Search As We Know It

179

How Black Twitter Defined Culture

180

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

181

We Demystify the Internet's Acronyms

182

A Chat About Airchat

183

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

184

Shopping for a New Social Feed

185

DOJ Calls Out Apple in the Group Chat

186

A 3-Body Podcast

187

The TikTok Ban

188

Google’s ‘Woke AI’ Problem

189

The Non-Techie's Guide to Nvidia

190

Tech Workers Are Stressed Out

191

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

192

Several People Are Talking

193

Apple’s Uncanny Valley Pro

194

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

195

AI Hits the Campaign Trail

196

C’ES la Vie

197

Abortion Pill Orders Are Soaring

198

Live on Stage: Reid Hoffman and Fei-Fei Li

199

Oops, All Recommendations!

200

Taylor Swift’s Pro-Russia Doppelganger

201

Blue Bubbles Versus Green Bubbles

202

Journalists in Studio Getting Coffee

203

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

204

How Three Teens Broke the Internet

205

Oh, the Humaneity

206

Happy 1-Year Muskiversary

207

23andMe and You

208

Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It

209

Business Wars: Living in an Artificial World

210

Searching for a Better Google

211

Meta’s Sound and Vision

212

Alexa Gets an AI Makeover

213

Your Life, Your iPhone

214

We Robloxed So You Don’t Have To

215

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

216

The Case of the Not-Stolen AirPods

217

The Cruelest Summer

218

Nobody’s Driving That Car!

219

Farm-to-Table Internet

220

The Future of Hollywood

221

Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans

222

Stop Trying to Make New Twitter Happen

223

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

224

Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

225

Shop Talk

226

What the Truck, Elon?

227

Apple’s Vision Quest

228

AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)

229

How to Get Started Biking

230

Let’s Get Swole

231

Google Disrupts Itself

232

Nothin’ but Bluesky

233

This Episode Is Nuts

234

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

235

Send in the Clones

236

Like, Follow, Subscribe to Cars

237

Sidewalk Surfin’

238

The Sacred Mountain of Chip-Making

239

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

240

ChatGPT in Schools

241

We Really Recommend This Episode

242

Netflix Is No Longer Chill

243

Real Humans Chat About Chatbots

244

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

245

Have We Reached Peak Smartphone?

246

Why the Kids Love TikTok Search

247

We Need to Talk About Your Stove

248

Oh, Deere!

249

CES 2023: We Live Here Now

250

Is It 2023 Yet?

251

Plastic Rap

252

The iPod of Crypto

253

ChatGPT for You and Me

254

What the Hell is BNPL?

255

The State of the Smart Kitchen

256

What Happens if Twitter Gets Hacked?

257

Demystifying Mastodon

258

Tweelon

259

Plastic Rap

260

OK, Car Computer

261

Zuckerberg's Innovation Dilemma

262

Life in Pixels

263

The State of the Smart Kitchen

264

Row Row Row Yourself

265

Visualizing VR’s Future

266

Welcome to Dynamic Island

267

How YouTube's Tumultuous Past Will Shape Its Future

268

How to Get Your Climate Tax Credits

269

Tractor Hacks

270

The Weird Phone Future

271

NFT Frames

272

Reel Talk About Instagram

273

Zucka Kappa Meta

274

Too Cool for Juul

275

Seriously, What Is the Metaverse?

276

The Zoomification of Slack

277

Streaming TV’s Many Possible Futures

278

Apple In Real Life

279

Texting Is Broken

280

WTF Is Web3?

281

How to Get Started Biking

282

Google Gadgets Galore

283

Kara Swisher's Take on Twitter

284

Snap’s New Drone Takes Flight

285

What Would Elon’s Twitter Look Like?

286

Browse Better

287

Peloton Bets Big on Body-Tracking

288

Who's Behind the Okta Hack?

289

How You DAOing?

290

When Facial Recognition Tech Is Wrong

291

And Apple Marches On

292

Swift Sanctions

293

Tracking Apple

294

Samsung Gonna Samsung

295

Hitting Pause on Spotify

296

Help! My Family is Stuck in the Metaverse

297

Road to the Future

298

Dry If You Might

299

Live From CES 2022

300

Goodbye to All That

301

WTF Is Web3?

302

A Conversation with Neal Stephenson

303

What an Augmented World

304

Shipping and Shopping

305

Let’s Get Meta

306

Big Macs, New Pixels

307

Facebook's Uncertain Future

308

Andrew Yang on Micromobility

309

Amazon Bots

310

Scratching the Surface

311

iPhoning It In

312

Boosters and Mandates

313

Power Problems

314

I Never Metaverse I Didn’t Like

315

Pixel Party

316

Apple’s Photo-Scanning Tech Explained

317

I Can Haz Memes

318

Inside Black Twitter

319

Bezos in Space

320

Why WeWork Didn't Work

321

I Bike, You Bike, Ebike

322

Paging Dr. Algorithm

323

Into the Great Wide Open

324

Cutting to the Core of Apple

325

Vaccine Incentives, From Donuts to Dollars

326

Oh, the Huemanity

327

Android Dreams

328

Muchos Bezos

329

The Truth About Section 230

330

Leave No Trace

331

Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth

332

500th Episode Extravaganza

333

Breaking Up, Hooking Up

334

Free Shipping

335

Reentry Anxiety

336

Future Computing the Facebook Way

337

WTF Is an NFT?

338

Facing Our AR Future

339

Gadgets on Mars

340

How to Get a PlayStation 5

341

Who Let the Doge Out

342

Clubhouse’s Elon Moment

343

Your Covid Vaccine Questions, Answered

344

Reboot Your Brain

345

CES Wrap-Up

346

Facebook and Twitter Finally Respond to Trump

347

Our 2021 Predictions

348

Gift Rap

349

Ride Share’s Road Ahead

350

Pedal Revolution

351

Apple Chips Ahoy

352

Console Wars

353

Car Talk

354

Google and the Government

355

The iPhones 12

356

Battling Burnout

357

Invasion of the Home Drone

358

The TikTok Dance

359

Apple Bundles Up

360

Connected Cardio

361

Tech the Vote

362

Alexa, Play My Alibi

363

Let’s Talk About Texts

364

The Foldable Future

365

We Love Cheap Phones

366

Amazon’s Hidden Prime Secrets

367

Tick Tock, TikTok

368

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

369

Introducing: Get WIRED

370

I Stream, You Stream

371

I Can't Stop Doomscrolling

372

Home Bodies

373

Arrested Developer Event

374

Inside the eBananas Scandal

375

When Can I See You Again?

376

Tech and the Police State

377

Trump v. Twitter

378

Remote Desktop

379

The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero

380

On the Road Again

381

The Argument for Making End-of-Life Decisions Early

382

Open For Business

383

Will Contact Tracing Work?

384

The Race to Make a Vaccine

385

Supply Demand

386

Pandemic Panic

387

The Generation Gap

388

Socially Distanced

389

Is Facebook Forever?

390

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

391

The Anti-Bias Bot

392

Smartphone Launch Events Are Silly

393

The Virus and the Vote

394

Everything Old Is New Again

395

Open Wide for Mouth Tech

396

One Wheel, Zero Buttons

397

Best of CES

398

Sex Toys and Toothbrushes

399

Our Favorite Stuff from 2019, Plus Our 2020 Predictions

400

The Case for Cassava

401

Going Places

402

Life After Facebook

403

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

404

When Big Tech Buys Your Darlings

405

Deep Listening

406

YouTube Creators Want More From YouTube

407

Facial Recognition Tech Is Coming to a School Near You

408

It's Time to Put Down Your Phone

409

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

410

Spot, the Robot Dog, Learns New Tricks

411

Your DNA Belongs on the Blockchain

412

iPhones to the Max

413

How Uber Went Down in Flames

414

Why It’s So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook

415

You’ve Got Microplastics

416

How Google’s Secrecy Lead to Company Turmoil

417

Amazon's Quest for World Domination

418

Bumps in the Road to Our Robo-Car Future

419

Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is Flawed

420

Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?

421

Facebook's Libra and the Future of Money

422

Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech

423

A Genius Move

424

The Biggest News From E3

425

Everything From Apple’s WWDC

426

Making Surfing More Sustainable

427

Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma

428

YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal

429

If You Build It, They Will I/O

430

The Making of Adam Savage

431

Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets

432

What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?

433

Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast

434

Reporting From Syria

435

The Case for Male Birth Control

436

Game On at Google

437

Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech

438

How to Quit Your Tech Job

439

Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies

440

You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em

441

The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames

442

The App Smackdown

443

Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here

444

Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers

445

The Best of CES

446

The Year in Tech, in One Word

447

Apocalypse Now