Business / Tech Culture

“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,” Teamsters general president Sean M. O’Brien said in a public statement. “Instead, they’ve pushed workers to the…

Lauren Goode: I don't remember that.Zoë Schiffer: I think she did.Michael Calore: I don't know why everybody's looking at me.Lauren Goode: Yeah. Mike, what's your recommendation?Michael Calore: Mine is actually weirdly ties into this…

Michael Calore: Yep.Lauren Goode: Yeah.Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë?Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time. I actually looked it up before and I think it's like three hours and 40 minutes on my phone, which honestly seems impressive to…

So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction. That’s why, at our show, there were all those big caps behind…

The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing industry’s sheen of glamor will continue to fade, too. While other STEM fields are making strides in broadening participation in their workforces, year after year,…

Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had well-developed strategies for generative AI by the time Apple finally announced its own push this June. Conventional wisdom suggested this entrance was…

Lauren Goode: I'm Lauren Goode. I'm a senior writer at WIRED.Zoë Schiffer: I'm Zoe Schiffer, WIRED's director of business and industry.Michael Calore: OK. I want to start today by going back one year into the past, November 2023, to an…

Big changes could be coming to Airbnb next year. In a conversation at WIRED’s Big Interview even in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company’s cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he hopes that, in…

Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has to do a…

When Mark Cuban is feeling spicy, he’ll always let you know. The billionaire businessman, basketball owner, and Shark Tank empresario lit up WIRED’s The Big Interview event on Tuesday, dropping hot takes about Elon Musk, the pharmaceutical…