US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
In 2026, the leaders of America's (former) trading partners will have to deal with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs....
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Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop
For five years, Caitlyn Jones has uses Pinterest on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son. In September,...
Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to become an immigration lawyer to join a free Apple...
OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
OpenAI sent 80 times as many incidents of child exploitation reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children...
How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year
What a weirdo time to be Elon Musk.This year opened with the businessman turned political operator and threw what appeared,...
WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025
Brian Barrett: I was looking back at some of our earliest DOGE reporting just this week and was reminded of...
Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
I hate to admit it, but I spent a lot of money online this holiday season. And not surprisingly, some...
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
When OpenAI declared a "code red" this month to refocus its teams on competing with Google, I couldn't help but...
Terrifying New Photos Emerge From the Jeffrey Epstein Estate
A New York Times spokesperson told WIRED in a statement that Brooks "regularly attends events to speak with well-known and...
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Fouch knew that automated sensors could help by, for example, identifying the environmental culprits of the hole-punching problems, but with...