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At ‘AI Coachella,’ Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty

As thousands of influencers descended on southern California earlier this month for the annual Coachella Music Festival, a very Silicon Valley program dubbed...

The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley’s Giants

Standing inside the HumanX conference in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, it’s hard not to feel like you’re at the center of the AI...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop

Kate Knibbs: So, you went twice?Makena Kelly: Yes, Kate. I went twice.Kate Knibbs: I missed that.Zoë Schiffer: Wait, is the Pentagon Pizza thing...

OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News

OpenAI announced Thursday that it had acquired the online business talk show TBPN for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as OpenAI struggles...

At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and corporate executives in...

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild...

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” on Friday, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley...

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading

OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned.OpenAI CEO of Applications,...

Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

Riley Walz, a software engineer famous for his online stunts, is joining OpenAI to research and develop new ways for humans to interact...

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million...

I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me

OpenClaw, a powerful new agentic assistant, has a thing for guacamole.This is one of several things I discovered while using the viral artificial...

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14...