Brian BarrettDhruv Mehrotra Business Jan 16, 2025 6:00 AM How Much Are Donald Trump’s Truth Social Shares Worth? The incoming president of the United States is also a social media mogul. We’re keeping a running tally of Donald Trump’s stake in Truth Social—and how his fortunes change with its ups and downs. ILLUSTRATION: AARON FERNANDEZ…
Joel Khalili Business Jan 16, 2025 6:00 AM The First Bitcoin President? Tracing Trump’s Crypto Connections Crypto execs funneled millions in donations to swing this election, and now their man is in charge. Here’s how Donald Trump’s “crypto cabinet” could shape the next four years. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images President Trump has surrounded himself…
Lydia Morrish Business Jan 16, 2025 6:02 AM GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found. GitHub Inc. signage during the Singapore FinTech Festival in Singapore.Photograph: Lionel Ng/Getty Images In late November, a deepfake porn…
Paresh Dave Business Jan 15, 2025 4:46 PM Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren’t expecting many forced relocations. Meta sign is seen at its headquarters at Menlo Park in…
By Will Knight Business Jan 15, 2025 12:01 PM Why ‘Beating China’ In AI Brings Its Own Risks The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences. PHoto-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images The Biden administration this week introduced new export…
Kate Knibbs Business Jan 15, 2025 7:00 AM That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes. Photo-Illustration: Darrell Jackson/Getty Images Next time you’re checking sports news online,…
Joel Khalili Business Jan 15, 2025 6:00 AM The Madcap Rise of Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun Pump.Fun raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in its first year in operation. Despite some growing pains, its creators say this is just the beginning. ILLUSTRATION: AARON FERNANDEZ In one of the internet’s stranger fringes, a unicorn with human…
Brian Barrett Business Jan 14, 2025 10:03 PM The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing Less than a week before Donald Trump takes office, the SEC has filed a complaint against his most prominent benefactor. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and…
By Bradley Hope The Big Story Jan 14, 2025 6:00 AM A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it. PHOTO COLLAGE: MIA…
Matt BurgessLily Hay Newman Security Jan 14, 2025 4:00 AM The ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Ever Is Growing at an Alarming Rate, Report Says Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions. Photo Illustration: WIRED…
