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Lauren Goode: Zoë, you had vegan pizza the other night. You said it was pretty good.Zoë Schiffer: I did. I did, and I read a really, really scary article written by Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic about dairy farming, and it radicalized me for…

Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of global innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and trends, has never been home to more undiluted power than it is today.Think about it: Elon Musk, among…

Amanda Hoover: Hungover is spelled a little wrong.Michael Calore: Yeah, without the E.Amanda Hoover: Yeah.Lauren Goode: How can you spell hungover wrong?Michael Calore: Without the E.Lauren Goode: From a branding perspective.…

Google just added a new customization tool for the viral AI podcasts in its NotebookLM software. I got early access and tested it out using Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as the source material, spending a few hours generating podcasts…

Lauren Goode: How many cameras do you have set up at home?Michael Calore: What? You mean like on the show Call Her Daddy? Like pointed at my couch.Lauren Goode: No, I meant cameras for security.Michael Calore: Like what's my safe…

AI data centers are so hot right now. Each time generative AI services churn through their large language models to make a chatbot answer one of your questions, it takes a great deal of processing power to sift through all that data. Doing…

While the idea of a quick-turnaround, generously AI-generated podcast might sound terrifying to some fans and creators, other players in the industry see it as an inevitability. Oskar Serrander, who describes his AI-meets-podcasting studio…

Synthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in political campaigns, and in chatbots where they maybe-not-so-subtly…

Michael Calore: Julian might know some chairs.Julian Chokkattu: Just a few.Lauren Goode: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was going to say, we do have a guide on WIRED.com. Yeah. But what I'm really hoping for, if I'm being totally honest, is that…

My first story for WIRED—yep, 31 years ago—looked at a group of “crypto rebels” who were trying to pry strong encryption technology from the government-classified world and send it into the mainstream. Naturally I attempted to speak to…