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WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, that was another executive order that came out. I think it was literally titled something around eliminating data silos. Another...

Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws

President Donald Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order on Thursday that sets in motion a plan to establish a national regulatory framework...

WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, and Amazon’s AI Ambitions

Leah Feiger: So it's a really good question actually, and it's one that I've thought about for quite some time. I think if...

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

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I think that one thing that everyone can agree on is that Nvidia is undoubtedly one of the companies that...

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure

In late July 2024, Lina Khan, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech at an event hosted by...

WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble?

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about one author's journey to flee the US, social media surveillance, chatbots and the world...

Melania Trump’s AI Era Is Upon Us

It’s unclear how Melania’s initiative will follow her goals of protecting children from the harms of AI or equipping them for a workforce...

The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’

The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of...

The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official

The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company, according to a...

WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor with Trump, you...

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty...

Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red...