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WIRED’s Politics Issue Cover Is in a City Near You

We turned our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here’s how to find them. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)

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Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market

For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.

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Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

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This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw

A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious injuries.

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A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software

Demand for AI chips is booming—and so is the need for software to run them. Chris Lattner’s startup Modular just raised $250 million to build the best developer tools for AI hardware.

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OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers

The new sites will boost Stargate’s planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.

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Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI

Venture capitalist Alexa von Tobel is ready to bet on quantum computing—starting with hardware.

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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’

The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

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$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers

President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent immigrant tech workers and firms scrambling to get back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

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Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.

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