Two of Big Tech’s most influential billionaires, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, will go head-to-head in a highly anticipated trial beginning April 27. In Musk v. Altman, a judge, advised by a jury, will ultimately determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits humanity, and the ruling could influence how the world’s leading AI developer controls and distributes its technology. For now, you can learn more about the trial here.On the PanelOn May 8, a panel of WIRED experts will go live to answer your questions about this consequential case.Zoë Schiffer:…
It was a nice, somewhat rainy weekend here in the mountains. That’s always a blessing. It’s too dry here, and winter was far too warm. I’ll take all the rain we can get. It’s also a good excuse to stay inside sipping hot coffee and solving puzzles. Let’s solve today’s…
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman will head to trial this month in an Oakland, California, federal courtroom, where nine jurors will settle a years-long dispute between the cofounders of OpenAI over the group’s founding mission. While spats between Silicon Valley’s most influential billionaires are notable in their own rite,…
The northern lights may be visible overnight from up to 10 northern U.S. states on Saturday, April 25, into Sunday, April 26, according to a forecast by space weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It comes in the wake of double M1-class solar flares on the sun…
Complicated relationships, creepy cults and action-packed new takes on The Most Dangerous Game. Love and murder. Spinoffs that literally nobody asked for. Cartoons about cats and documentaries about apes. There’s a little bit of something for everyone this weekend when it comes to new TV shows and movies on all…
Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition.Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip…
April 23 update: this article, originally published on April 22 was updated on April 23 with further details of exactly what the update is about. Apple has released a new iPhone update, just two weeks after the last one. This release is designed to address a particular problem in Notification…
Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the story for you.That seems…
ToplineTesla beat Wall Street expectations in its first earnings report this year, following a recent decline in its core auto business as the company shifts its focus to self-driving taxis, humanoid robots and AI infrastructure. Key FactsTesla reported first-quarter revenue of $22.39 billion and $0.41 earnings per share, beating FactSet…
General Catalyst (GC) just published its first-ever quarterly investor letter, and the headline figure is not the $380 billion valuation Anthropic fetched in its Series G; it is the state of an entire asset class. CEO Hemant Taneja argues that software buyouts structured around terminal value, rather than cash flow,…
How do you file taxes on prediction market profits? It seems like the type of straightforward question any halfway decent bookkeeper should be able to answer. Right now, though, it’s a conundrum for tax experts across the country. “You have a vacuum of guidance,” says Patrick Camuso, an accountant who…
Since March, Israeli attacks on Beirut and the occupation of southern Lebanon have displaced over 1 million people. Families are sheltering with relatives, renting if they can, or sleeping in cars and out in the open, placing immense strain on already fragile infrastructure. Over 130,000 people have also crossed into…
This week, our hosts discuss why OpenAI and Elon Musk’s legal feud is heating up once again—and happening alongside SpaceX’s IPO filing. They also dive into how a Department of Justice lawyer misled a judge about how they’re handling voter data, and why the Artemis II’s launch captured all of…
San Francisco police arrested an individual early on Friday morning for allegedly attacking the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and making threats outside of the company’s headquarters, a spokesperson confirmed to WIRED. OpenAI’s corporate security team sent a note to employees about the incident on Friday.“At approximately 3:45am PT,…
Governments around the world have been struggling to address the rise of industrial-scale scamming operations based in countries like Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia that have cost victims billions of dollars over the past few years. The operations often have ties to Chinese organized crime, use forced labor to carry out…
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