There are now a shocking *60,000* people in a Facebook group dedicated to an unproven autism treatment being pushed by the Trump administration.

That's just one of many disturbing details in this must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

This really gets at the scale of OpenAI's ambitions, a world in which it's not just a chatbot living inside a browser but an entire platform unto itself. from @willknight.bsky.social @laurengoode.bsky.social and @thiccreese.bsky.social

This summer @zeyiyang.bsky.social trekked across four countries in search of what makes labubu labubu:

In college, I'd always walk past an unremarkable store in Beijing that sold a variety of trendy, but tacky, toys. That store has turned into Pop Mart, the $45-billion Chinese toy empire behind Labubu, the biggest global fad of 2025.

This is my big story/pilgrimage trip to explain how they got here

Featuring exclusive interviews with

*Labubu's creator

*the Pop Mart C-suite

*THE CHIEF OF ALL LABUBUS

www.wired.com/story/labubu...

You may think you know Labubu, but @zeyiyang.bsky.social knows more www.wired.com/story/labubu...

This is the story, in federal workers’ words, of “what happened when the world’s most powerful man unleashed the world’s richest one on the world’s most complex institution.”

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!!
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it.

I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of federal agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

This is the oral history of DOGE, as told by federal workers:

Harrowing deep dive by my colleagues on DOGE’s devastation of government agencies, in the words of federal workers: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs. www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

“They can’t get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.”

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

popping back in from mat leave to say i profiled @katmabu.bsky.social for @wired.com and you should read it! she's running a fascinating campaign: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

What are words, even? from @dell.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen, the @brbarrett.bsky.social blog you need to read today: www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

As we listen to RFK's heavy, heavy breathing before Congress, take a moment and read @wired.com's package on what is really going on with science and medicine right now! www.wired.com/beyond-welln...

"The guy who once had a fever dream about murderous machines while 'sick and broke' in Rome and proceeded to turn it into The Terminator—the creator of Skynet!—is on the board of an AI company."

@zoeschiffer.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/artifi...

The AI revolution in Hollywood is already underway

Great reporting from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social here, including a a conversation with James Cameron, the man who came up with Terminator and Skynet, and who is now on the board of an AI company...

www.wired.com/story/artifi...

It's not often that I finish a feature story and then ... scroll right back to the top to start reading it again. We've been buzzing about this one on staff for weeks, and there's a lot more coming that we're very excited about. (Subscribe to WIRED, everyone!)

I've read this story at least five times, and it has my jaw on the floor and sends shivers down my spine every! single! time!

Think you know a thing or two about the risks of surrogacy?

You have no idea.

From the @wired.com features team.

"The case of Bi and her surrogate shows how, in an environment with little regulation and extreme inequality, the miracle of life can mutate into a death sentence."

Absolutely harrowing long read about the power dynamics of surrogacy on @wired.com today: www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

A private investigator. Psychics. Calls to the FBI. Dozens of reports to regulators. A million dollar legal battle. A restraining order. An arrest warrant.

American surrogacy raked in approximately $5 billion in 2024. What can go wrong?