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This week, our hosts discuss why OpenAI and Elon Musk’s legal feud is heating up once again—and happening alongside SpaceX’s…

If you haven’t heard of UpScrolled before, a brief primer: It’s a social media platform not too different from, say,…

Kate Knibbs: So, you went twice?Makena Kelly: Yes, Kate. I went twice.Kate Knibbs: I missed that.Zoë Schiffer: Wait, is the…

Luis von Ahn could have retired to a beach somewhere years ago. Best known as the CEO of the learning…

Brian Barrett: The irony is my favorite part because I feel like venture capitalists have largely positioned themselves as immune…

Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at…

Guys, before we go to break, there’s something very near and dear to my heart that WIRED wrote about this…

Brian Barrett: They’ve got 80 billion or so to spend 75 billion of that I think they have to spend…

Jonathan Nolan saw this coming. As a screenwriter, he’s worked on several of his brother Christopher Nolan’s films, from Interstellar…

In today’s episode, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer are joined by Tim Marchman, WIRED’s director of science, politics, and…

Brian Barrett: Zoë, can you add Chatham House Rules to your list of words that you want to get out…

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales has been called the last decent tech baron. It’s sounds like a flattering label, although one I…

Reid Hoffman doesn’t do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and…