Lauren Goode Michael Calore Zoe Schiffer

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Who’s Elon Musk’s Biggest Fan? His Mom

She sits in on his business meetings, defends him on X, and travels to give talks about how she raised him, the richest man in the world—but who is Elon Musk’s mother?...

A Look at a Very Silicon Valley Approach to Repopulation

Silicon Valley is obsessed with solutionism. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when it comes to a declining birth rate, some of the valley’s elite have a clear answer: more...

Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips

We’ve been so busy at WIRED covering politics, science, culture, security, gear, and so much more that this week we decided to do something a little different—we’re talking through three stories from...

The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

The relationship between Sam Altman and Elon Musk goes back to the early days of OpenAI—then a nonprofit research lab. But now the two men find themselves in a very public feud...

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

Dating apps have evolved a lot over the years, with apps dedicated to any romantic niche—dog lovers, astrology heads, and big, bushy beards. Despite the seemingly endless options of dating platforms, the...

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, but Can It Last?

On a Sunday in January, TikTok users were greeted with a notification in the app which said that TikTok was no longer available to use in the US, but that it hoped...

The World According to Marc Andreessen

it wasn’t that long ago that one of Silicon Valley's most prominent and influential venture capitalists, Marc Andreessen, was a major supporter of the Democratic Party. So how did he, in such...

Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers

With the news that Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking program, we dig into the future of content moderation. From Community Notes to automated systems, how do you manage trust and safety...

Lauren Goode Michael Calore Zoe Schiffer

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