The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.

NEWS: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO. Apple svp of hardware engineering John Ternus will take on the CEO role starting in Sept. @peard33.bsky.social and I break down Cook's career, his wins, his losses, his legacy as CEO, and what this big change means for Apple www.wired.com/story/tim-co...

The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginnin...

NEW: Absolutely bonkers tale for @wired.com by @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social about Beijing spying on Chinese dissidents in the US, including Alysa Liu's father (and Alysa as a result): www.wired.com/story/the-we...

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

Sources say Google, Amazon are two of the hyperscalers in talks with Intel to use the foundry's advanced packaging www.wired.com/story/why-ch...

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. I took a deep dive into Intel's approach, how it's going all in on packaging, and how the co (along with the PM of Malaysia) has been signaling that it's ramping up packaging www.wired.com/story/why-ch...

An Inside Look at OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs Silicon Valley’s hottest startups have the same challenge: funding giant computing costs.

Every generation of start-ups has its own fuzzy math.

Groupon had ACSOI (earnings excluding very high marketing costs)

WeWork had a similar "community adjusted Ebitda"

I guess OpenAI and Anthropic have earnings excluding training costs (which are very very high) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.

My next Big Interview for @wired.com is out, and the timing couldn’t be better: In the days before Arm was set to launch its own chip (!) I had the chance to grill Arm CEO Rene Haas on what this CPU means for the chip market, and for the future of Arm www.wired.com/story/arms-c...

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.

Huge news in chip world: ARM is now making its own chips www.wired.com/story/chip-d...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Scoop: Grammarly is facing a class action lawsuit over its AI "expert review" tool, which presented advice from living and dead authors without their consent. Parent company Superhuman pulled the feature earlier today following backlash. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

NEW: Grammarly got hit with a class-action lawsuit this afternoon over its AI "expert review" feature that uses real experts' likenesses without their consent. @juliaangwin.com is the only named plaintiff. @milesklee.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

Big scoop from @willknight.bsky.social: Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths

from this recent Dorsey interview:

I'll give you one guess

Meta Developed Four New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems The MTIA processors are the tech giant’s latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.

AI companies have all learned the lesson that smartphone companies learned almost a decade ago: Design your own chips. from @laurengoode.bsky.social

Had this convo with a *certain* VC off the record last year.

And said plainly: Point of journalism is not to solely help your deal flow and make rich people richer, but to provide truthful and accurate information to people who don't have such access to power and capital bsky.app/profile/kngu...

Believing the point of Wired—or journalism at large—is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.

for the record, i won't work for people like this. i don't give a shit about money. i will thoreau myself. i'll eat soup everyday. i will get a job at wingstop.

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

SCOOP from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social & @laurengoode.bsky.social Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

Scoop, from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and me: Nvidia has been readying a new open-source, agentic AI platform for businesses. Think OpenClaw, but for enterprises. Nvidia is pitching it to customers as a secure option for claws, and plans to reveal more at GTC next week www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government www.wired.com/story/openai... via @mzeff.bsky.social

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.

Anthropic sues US government www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Wired has gotten more negative, and that’s a positive. I was working there when the vibe started shifting from “wow, look what tech can do!” to, “oh shit, look what tech companies are doing.”

Less cheerleading and more watchdogging is precisely the right call.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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 the company “as an intelligence.”

Anyway, very very good exclusive sit-down with @stevenlevy.bsky.social here www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

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 the company “as an intelligence.”

What's interesting about this convo with Jack—in addition to his comments on Block layoffs, the state of X, and his decision to step away from Bluesky—is that he says Wired has gotten more negative but also essentially acknowledged that the state of tech isn't...great www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

Huge scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social: Sources say the DoD used Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications www.wired.com/story/openai...

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

NEW: AI code translation startup Code Metal, which closed its series A funding round in November, has just raised another $125 million. The company makes a code translation and code validation platform for defense tech, among other industries www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.

Yesterday Nvidia and Meta announced a multi-billion dollar deal for chips in Meta's AI datacenters—both GPUs and CPUs. I wrote about why CPUs are back, and how Nvidia is adapting in an era when AI labs and tech co's are looking at every possible compute resource www.wired.com/story/nvidia...