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When Nikki Saryan called one of her former sugar daddies in March, she wanted to talk about money, just not in the way he expected. Though there was a time when she pulled in $20,000 a month and was treated to first-class trips to New York…

“Grid growth can't match AI demand, so a pragmatic 'all-of-the-above' strategy is essential—with gas as a critical bridge,” Cully Cavness, the cofounder and president of Crusoe, told WIRED in a statement. “This isn't the destination; it's…

Free users are costly for OpenAI. One of its biggest challenges throughout this change will be introducing ads at scale, without deteriorating trust or pushing users to competing chatbots, like Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude.“It's…

Anthropic won a preliminary injunction barring the US Department of Defense from labeling it a supply-chain risk, potentially clearing the way for customers to resume working with the company. The ruling on Thursday by Rita Lin, a federal…

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted a video on Wednesday of six men decked out in business casual doing push-ups on the sidewalk. “This is how Kalshi Q1 board meeting ended,” he wrote on X. The board members are laughing and smiling in the…

More than half of the nine developers who worked on the game have either obtained a US visa or tried and failed to do so. Most of them are from China, but the team also intentionally recruited talent from other countries in the hopes of…

The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. On March 26, our panel of experts will help make sense of Big Tech's role in various military operations unfolding across the world—including the federal government's…

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…

Superhuman, the tech company behind the writing software Grammarly, is facing a class action lawsuit over an AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—none of whom consented to have…

Last fall, as venture capitalists were sinking record sums into artificial intelligence, a group of investors gathered to appraise a new startup. The company, Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute, made software to automatically tune…