It’s a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven by effective altruism (EA), a philosophy that has lurked around the fringes for years but recently burst into the mainstream because its adherents are embedded across the AI industry, from Anthropic to newly appointed

A few months ago, Nathan Fielder’s publicist sent me an unexpected email: Would WIRED be interested in Fielder for a fall cover of our magazine? The answer, before we even got a reason, was yes. The reason, it turned out, was that Fielder would soon release a project that was

Credit...Ed Steed OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Ed Steed Listen · 16:48 min Oct. 18, 2026 This fall, another cohort of ambitious young professionals has arrived at business schools around the world for two-year programs with price tags in the six figures. Their presence at some of the nicest and shiniest buildings on

I’ll start with a nomenclatural sidenote: Apple seems to be going with “Apple HomeView” as the product’s name. E.g., the URL slug for it on Apple.com is apple-homeview/, not just homeview/. Few people notice and no one who doesn’t work in Apple product marketing cares, but they actually do the

The trouble with economists, Isabella Weber believes, is they do not behave like dentists. They obsess over ideological purity and are inflexible when searching for solutions, regardless of society’s symptoms. Dentists have no such pretensions – patients have little patience for dogma when in insufferable pain. John Maynard Keynes, Weber

Photo by Wiki Sinaloa on Unsplash In the last few months, OpenAI has stunned the mathematical community with the publication of hundreds of math findings. Many of these proofs, which span number theory, theoretical computer science, and logic, had stumped the world’s best mathematicians for decades, or centuries. The reaction

Businessweek | Screentime The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI How did Rockstar Games build what is expected to be the biggest video game blockbuster of all time? First it had to rebuild itself. October 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT If the video game industry had something like an

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the world’s best warfighting equipment and most highly trained military

The Keynote I loved the keynote’s “You want a great opening scene?” opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings. Apple started with a title card that said “The following was shot on iPhone”, but the whole keynote — including the fun fake-movie openings — was

When iOS 27 first came out back in June, we started working on a series of in-depth feature guides and how tos that go through all of the updates in Apple's new software. Our ultimate guide aggregates all of our ‌iOS 27‌ coverage, and it is useful for iPhone and

Content warning: This piece includes descriptions of nonconsensual sex and intimate image abuse. On the afternoon of Sunday, November 2, 2025, Maddie Kowalski stopped by a house in Gainesville to drop off a present. The University of Florida sophomore had traveled to Japan that summer, where she’d picked up an

A Critic at Large Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. September 13, 2026 A ship named for the founder of political Zionism brings Jewish immigrants to the Port of Haifa, in 1948. According

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a

Last year, a baby named Emanuel was born in Sweden. Before his first birthday, his parents were told that Emanuel could no longer stay in the country. The department of migration ordered his removal, alone, to Iran – despite the ongoing war. Emanuel’s parents were legally in the country. They

Credit...Brandon Celi OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Brandon Celi Listen · 22:30 min Sept. 10, 2026 The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging

El matemático Diego Córdoba lleva dos días sin dormir cuando contesta a la llamada de EL PAÍS, el miércoles por la mañana: “Estoy aún en shock, la verdad”, dice, y reconoce que no sabe cómo está cuando se le pregunta. El sábado por la noche recibió una llamada de un

Last year, an unplanned personal hiatus coincided with the time when I should have been reviewing the then-new iPhones 17 and iPhone Air. In my brief note explaining my absence, I wrote: I look forward to getting back to writing very soon. I can feel it: I will be back

Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a brick; to avoid lugging around all 1,344 pages, people have cut it apart at the spine and chunked it into sections. Others have organized in-person Power Broker marathon readings that

Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. Or imagine standing with the pioneering physicists in 1942 before they triggered the first self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction beneath a Chicago stadium. These were two of the analogies used this week