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You have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know.
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.
Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn.
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
Thanks to a dwindling supply of open roles, “one-click” applications, and the rise of artificial intelligence, it’s easier than ever to apply for a job. We’re all paying the price.
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe. You know GoFundMe — it’s a major fundraising platform where you can donate to help people with everything from medical expenses to little league uniforms to starting a new business. Tim took over as CEO in March 2020 — a fascinating and chaotic […]
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
Engineers who only understand the technology, and never the business it serves, hit a ceiling early. The best ones develop commercial awareness — a real sense of how value is created, funded, and sold. Two days at 21BY72 Season 4, one of Bharat's leading startup summits — eighty-five ventures on the floor and live pitches in front of six hundred investors — was a concentrated lesson in exactly that, and I wrote about it in this reflection . Technology is a means; the business is the point It's easy, as an engineer, to treat the product as the whole world and the commercial side as someone else's problem. Sitting in a room where eighty-five ventures pitched to investors makes the truth obvious: the technology is a means to a business end, and understanding that end makes you a better engineer, not a distracted one. Watching founders pitch — being judged not on how clever the build was but on whether it solved a real problem people would pay for — reframes how you think about your own work. It pushes you to ask "who is this for and why does it matter" before "how do I build it." What the summit floor teaches an engineer Investors buy problems solved, not features built. The pitches that landed were about a real need and a credible path to meeting it — a discipline that improves engineering priorities directly. Commercial context sharpens technical decisions. When you understand the business constraints — cost, speed to market, who the customer actually is — you make better trade-offs in the architecture, not worse ones. Exposure recalibrates ambition. Being around people building real ventures at scale resets your sense of what's possible and what "serious" looks like. The takeaway The most rounded engineers I've come to admire pair technical depth with genuine commercial awareness. Spending two days inside a major startup summit, watching how businesses are pitched, funded, and built, was a deliberate investment in the half of the picture that a pure engineering educ
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have […]
The West Coast house-party scene has long been iconic. For these young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs, it was also inspiration for MyPlots, a party-promotion empire.
The West Coast house-party scene has long been iconic. For these young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs, it was also inspiration for MyPlots, a party-promotion empire.