Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering
[ad_1] At the end of September, Rigetti reported $212 million in assets and a net loss of $49 million for the year to date. The SPAC deal was originally expected to net $458…
Big Tech’s Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails Immigrant Workers
[ad_1] Tens of thousands of people have been laid off at Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and other once-voracious tech employers in recent months. But one group of workers has been particularly…
ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
[ad_1] When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: “It is likely that its worth is…
Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
[ad_1] “I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that all the preceding legal minds to examine this issue…
What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
[ad_1] Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the…
Happiness Should Be the Most Important KPI for Tech Employers
[ad_1] During economic downturns, businesses resort to muscle memory and do what they’ve done before. That often means budget cuts—and the deepest cuts commonly target technology investment and people. This…
The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning
[ad_1] Who calls the shots on how many days you end up working in the office? It has gradually dawned on bosses that it isn’t them. The real power holders?…
Transformative Businesses Are Born in Tough Times
[ad_1] It’s been a rough year for entrepreneurs. Funding has been tight, top-flight leaders have been harder to lure away from secure corporate jobs, and marketing and discretionary spending has…
Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
[ad_1] WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as I am, let…
Embrace Diversity or Get Left Behind
[ad_1] In the summer of 2020, the death of George Floyd sparked global conversations about race and racial justice. It inspired soul-searching and a chorus of commitments to greater racial…
Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next
[ad_1] Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely employer: the US government. Soaring Silicon Valley salaries, perks,…
Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
[ad_1] Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other people registered for the Zoom, which was hosted by…
Max Levchin’s War on Credit Cards
[ad_1] Photograph: Karen Santos Max Levchin isn’t anti-credit, he really wants you to know. He’s anti-credit card. There’s a big difference. He will talk about credit cards endlessly, and he’ll skillfully…
Apple Won’t Let Staff Work Remotely to Escape Texas Abortion Limits
[ad_1] Rebecca was getting ready to start her work day at Apple this June when she heard that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision would trigger laws…
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
[ad_1] Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful text and disinformation en…
Good Luck Getting Elon Musk to Stop Tweeting
[ad_1] Why do it? When I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this year, I leaned toward the idea that Twitter itself had led him into this 280-character recklessness. I described…
Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
[ad_1] “You have two diverging paths for tech workers,” says Pollak. “One group is taking a flight-to-safety approach and going to companies and industries that are recession-resistant. And another group…
Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
[ad_1] Hi everyone. Welcome to Plaintext, the newsletter that’s cheaper than a blue check mark—and guaranteed bot-free! The Plain View This was the month when Big Tech got smaller. The…
The Reason for Meta’s Massive Layoffs? Ghosts in the Machine
[ad_1] Remember Libra, Meta’s ambitious plan to enter the cryptocurrency market? Or Lasso, Meta’s ambitious attempt to outdo TikTok? Alongside projects like Shops, Meta’s ambitious plan to turn Instagram and…
Elon Musk Is Overloaded | WIRED
[ad_1] Neuralink, which works on brain implants for controlling a computer, was also founded in 2016. Musk has previously said he planned to have regulatory approval for the brain chips…
Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just got no-hit. Booooo! The Plain View In May 1998,…
Why Meta Is Tanking—and How Zuckerberg Can Fix It
[ad_1] 2012: Facebook plays catch-up with mobile. Not many people realize that Facebook had an existential scare when the action in computing shifted from the desktop to our pockets. This…
The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
[ad_1] Like Murphy, many overemployed individuals are achieving financial milestones that once seemed out of reach—from buying a home to building up sizable savings. In one Discord conversation, a member…
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland
[ad_1] The Rise of the Rest investments you extoll certainly benefited from that exuberance—and now may suffer. Some Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were focused on rising cities might pull…
Who Gets to Build the Next Software Stack of Civilization?
[ad_1] It’s two weeks to RE:WIRED Green, our event on climate change and the power of human ingenuity to tackle it. We’ve got speakers on food tech and food waste,…