Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You’re talking to the only former member of Congress who’s won a poker tournament in Las Vegas,” he tells WIRED. When he was representing South Carolina in the US House of Representatives, he pushed for the state to allow sports betting.Because of his background, Mulvaney, a former Trump administration official, says he can tell when something is gambling—and that the sports contracts on prediction markets fit the bill. “You know the old saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck?” he asks. “If…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move, which came after Anthropic’s roughly $200 million contract with the Pentagon imploded, and asked Altman to release more information about the agreement.…
Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications.Smack Technologies, which announced a $32 million funding round this week, is developing models that it says will soon surpass Claude’s capabilities when it comes…
President Trump is adding a new 10 percent tariff on nearly all imports to the United States, following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned most of the levies imposed by the US government last year.In an executive order signed Friday evening, Trump outlined a few exceptions, including imports of critical…
Supercomputers can be measured in several ways, but the vital statistic is their ability to perform floating-point operations per second, or flops. Flopping as fast as possible is what makes you successful. At her peak, Sierra could hit 94.64 petaflops—94.64 quadrillion floating-point operations—per second. El Capitan, at 1.809 exaflops, is…
A former candidate in the 2026 race for governor of California and a popular YouTuber have been kicked off Kalshi’s platform for alleged violations related to insider trading, the popular prediction market revealed Wednesday.In a blog post detailing the cases, Kalshi’s head of enforcement, Robert DeNault, noted that the company’s…
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 research firm Citrini titled “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.” It…
Sharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea…
Freight fraud is a big and growing problem. A company called GenLogs is providing an exciting technological solution to this problem. The GenLogs solution provides real-time transportation visibility through thousands of cameras placed along the US’s busiest highways. The visual data is combined with sophisticated visual recognition technology. The cameras…
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 think that the first time you brought…
During his eight seasons on Saturday Night Live, Will Forte often played the character MacGruber. It was a parody of that TV character Macgyver who could seemingly improvise a fix to practically anything. Well, now Forte is trying to bring much more attention via the “Honestly HD” campaign with Teva…
For decades, a blood draw in a clinical lab was the only way to quantify your hormones. In 2026, that paradigm is shifting and we are seeing saliva cartridges analyzed by smartphone AI, DNA-based biosensor patches, earring-back wearables, and sweat sensors are converging to make hormone tracking as routine as…
“Lin cannot seriously dispute that the decision to allow opioid sales on Incognito was his own,” the prosecution’s filing reads. “And, Lin made that decision knowing full well that encouraging opioids is tantamount to welcoming fentanyl poisonings.”Yet portions of the defense’s memos related to Lin’s sentencing point to several specific…
For most of the past decade, data sovereignty was a legal and compliance problem. Someone in the legal department handled it. IT built the network, bought the tools and if regulators had questions about where data lived, that was someone else’s job.That division of labor is breaking down—and honestly, it…
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which could lead to more than $175 billion in tariff refunds for American companies. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—the law that the Trump administration used to justify…
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