Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe United States and China may have agreed on a deal to prevent the social platform TikTok from...
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier...
Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?
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WIRED’s Politics Issue Cover Is Coming to a City Near You
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyPalantir Technologies, which moved from Silicon Valley to Denver in 2020, sells software that immigration authorities use to...
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest...
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$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech...
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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyIn March of this year, Meredith Whittaker was at her kitchen table in Paris when Signal, the encrypted...
Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyAlexa von Tobel is fully aware that her big bet on quantum computing may never pay off. “The...