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Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it to Steve Jobs and he instantly shut down the discussion. “If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed,” he told me icily. “You…

Under a new state regulation, venture capital firms operating in California were supposed to submit demographic data about their portfolio companies, including the gender and race of startup founders they backed. But amid public criticism…

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 attendance are unprepared for the weather; they’d assumed the…

Should people be worried about chewing microplastics?No, we've never had one complaint about microplastics since I've been here. If you do enough research, there’s a lot to be learned on what's real and what's not real, what's toxic.…

When Troy Dixon first suggested incorporating prediction markets into the electronic trading platform where he works, he was met with incredulity. “People told us we were crazy,” Dixon, Tradeweb’s cohead of global markets, tells WIRED. But…

After years of chaos in the global supply chain, Ryan Petersen, CEO of the logistics company Flexport, felt 2026 might offer some modicum of order. The pandemic was firmly in the rearview mirror. Red Sea shipping channels—which had been…

I’ve spent the past few days asking AI companies to convince me that the prospects for AI safety have not dimmed. Just a few years ago, it seemed that there was universal agreement among companies, legislators, and the general public that…

Before last week the name Alap Shah didn’t ring a bell for many people. The 45-year-old financial analyst and tech entrepreneur had spent the past two decades working in relative obscurity. Then last weekend he coauthored a blog with the…

Guys, before we go to break, there's something very near and dear to my heart that WIRED wrote about this week. It's something I love even more than biathlon. It is undersea internet cables.Leah Feiger: I love when you talk about this. I…

When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make a major splash. But this week a second development hit like a cannonball: The…