Lauren Goode

world class reporting, organizing and presentation, here. WIRED really is that bitch

This is such an amazing package of stories and kudos to @harmancipants.bsky.social and our features editors for asking us to plumb the deepest depths for our takes on AI bsky.app/profile/harm...

AI Is Not God In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third?

Are you there, God? @laurengoode.bsky.social is looking www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...

Thank you!! Yes longer version is online 🫶

Free speech maxmimalists, the "public square" zealots, etc.

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

NEW, from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: The FTC is disappearing blog posts about AI that were written during Lina Khan’s tenure as FTC chair www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

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

w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social
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Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck “We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they’re proud to drive it.

This is really just incredible work from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social + photographer Michelle Groskopf. Come for the cybertruck dogs, stay for the insurrectionist? www.wired.com/story/owning...

Inside Intel's Hail Mary to Reclaim Chip Dominance The struggling American chipmaker is betting that a new plant and fresh product line will help turn around its fortunes.

Ten days ago I suited up in a clean room and toured Intel's new Fab 52 in Arizona. It's where the new Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest chips are being produced using a new node, 18A, and it's part of Intel's desperate Hail Mary to turn the company around www.wired.com/story/intel-...

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

ChatGPT is starting to look less like a chatbot and more like...an operating system www.wired.com/story/openai... latest from me & @willknight.bsky.social

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operation System At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

This really gets at the scale of OpenAI's ambitions, a world in which it's not just a chatbot living inside a browser but an entire platform unto itself. from @willknight.bsky.social @laurengoode.bsky.social and @thiccreese.bsky.social

OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble.

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers shows that OAI believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble. The deal also gives OpenAI the option to acquire a 10 percent stake in AMD www.wired.com/story/openai... from @willknight.bsky.social and me

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

Marissa Mayer's AI company Sunshine is shuttering, with assets going to a new Mayer company called Dazzle. @laurengoode.bsky.social with the scoop.

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Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

Scoop with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: Marissa Mayer is dissolving her Sunshine startup lab. The assets will be sold to a new Mayer-founded AI firm called Dazzle www.wired.com/story/mariss...

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Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

Larry Ellison is a shadow president in Donald Trump's America. www.wired.com/story/larry-... via @jakelahut.writes.news

A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software Demand for AI chips is booming—and so is the need for software to run them. Chris Lattner’s startup Modular just raised $250 million to build the best developer tools for AI hardware.

Modular is one of the more interesting startups I’ve heard about in a long time. Their goal is hyper-specific but super important in the generative AI era: Improve the portability and performance of the software that runs on GPUs, and loosen the Nvidia CUDA chokehold www.wired.com/story/semico...

today the @wired.com mural in bushwick they’re working on zuck dog leg and sam altman dog manicure so tag us if u see us

Politics cover wired

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They’re painting this @wired.com art on a wall in Bushwick today

In which @stevenlevy.bsky.social lays out what drew him to covering Silicon Valley years ago, and how the industry has arrived at an incredibly dangerous place of political pandering. www.wired.com/story/silico...

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.

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

This @stevenlevy.bsky.social essay is many things. One of them is a love letter to the transformative, oppositional, innovative, optimistic Silicon Valley of the not-too-distant past. When founders talked about changing the world for the better — and meant it.

$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent tech firms scrambling to get immigrant workers back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

"Before she even met her family at the airport, she already decided to fly back to the US as soon as possible. She only stayed in Urumqi for two hours before hopping on the next flight back to California." @zeyiyang.bsky.social on the H-1B chaos this past weekend www.wired.com/story/dollar...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.

Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.

Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent immigrant tech workers and firms scrambling to get back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

“I had looked forward to the opportunity of traveling with my parents for a long time, but the reality is, I can’t leave behind my husband, my cat, my house, my friends, and my job in the US."

$3,800 flights and aborted takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Visa announcement panicked tech workers.

I loved making those videos! One of these days I'll try to revive them :)

Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker.

There's a lot going on here!! www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking

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Top Trump Ally May Soon Control TikTok and CNN Neither of these deals have been realized. But I want to flag...

the list of national media institutions not owned by fascist billionaires is getting shorter and shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/top-t...