On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She…
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy…
Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
If you’re the type of person who cares about Valentine’s Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer. While dating apps…
‘Uncanny Valley’: ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans, Palantir Workers’ Ethical Concerns, and AI Assistants
This week, hosts Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer discuss WIRED’s big scoop on ICE’s startling plans to expand to nearly every state in…
A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website…
OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
OpenAI’s president and cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of President Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025.…
Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
Cryptocurrency’s frictionless, transnational, low-regulation transactions have long promised the ability to pay anyone in the world for anything. More than ever before, that anything includes…
I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups
I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the…
What Makes a Great DBA in 2026?
</span> <span itemprop=”> The role of the database administrator (DBA) has never been static. From the early days of punch cards and mainframes to today’s…
Striking the Right Balance Between Automation and Manual Processes in IT
As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than…