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If you’ve spent time in San Francisco or Phoenix in the last couple years, chances are you’ve probably seen a self-driving car making its way around. This week, we’re joined by WIRED’s Aarian Marshall to talk about the race to flood our…

Katie Drummond: Right. Move fast and break things as we've been saying a lot at WIRED in the last few months. We're going to take a short break, when we come back, what you need to read on WIRED today.Welcome back to Uncanny Valley. I'm…

Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked…

Mobile World Congress, better known as MWC, is an annual tradeshow in Barcelona, where many of the major players in mobile get together to unveil new devices, announce services, and make deals. It's no longer the central hub of all the…

Budget and staffing cuts at the Food and Drug Administration orchestrated by President Donald Trump could prevent new drugs “from being developed, approved, or commercialized in a timely manner, or at all,” according to dozens of annual…

The impacts have hit the National Park Service as well. One employee was poised to go on a trip to oversee road maintenance at a national monument when the change went into effect on February 20. “Unless I want to pay for it myself, I can’t…

GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with their prompts. Users who want to be part of the first wave to…

When news first broke about Elon Musk’s tech takeover of the United States government, a number of people who had spent years trying to transform federal IT practices were surprisingly hopeful. Maybe, they dreamed, Elon Musk and his team at…

For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has seen its annual deficit increase for the last three years. The Office of Personnel Management, which acts as the HR department for…

It’s that time again, when the Chiefs somehow back their way into another Super Bowl and even your famous 13-layer dip won’t be enough to spice up your get-together. You need a plan. The best solution for a better show is a better screen,…