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The truth behind Trump's dramatic late-night Epstein file reversal: It wasn't a gamble, it was a tactic... and White House insiders say it's Democrats who will pay the price Doctor's warning about lesser discussed Mounjaro side effect - which has similar symptom to deadly bowel cancer The incredible new treatment that can cure liver cancer - without surgery, drugs or radiation. Roger had cirrhosis and thought he was going to die. Now he says: 'I'm so grateful' X is DOWN: Elon Musk's social media app crashes for thousands of users around the world Tom Cruise breaks his silence over ex-wife Nicole Kidman's split from Keith Urban: 'Karma' North Korea executes'big shot' couple who became'arrogant' after the success of their business, accusing them of being'anti-republic' Movie icon'lost her virginity to her stepfather at 11', seduced her friend's 17-year-old son... but took a forbidden secret to her grave Charlie Kirk's head of security finally explains the unusual hand signals his team made just moments before kill shot rang out Trump is being utterly humiliated by a dead pedophile. MAGA and his legacy are collapsing. AMANDA PLATELL: Everyone is saying the same thing about pampered Princess Beatrice and her latest PR stunt.
'Odd Lots' Cohost Joe Weisenthal Has Predictions About How the AI Bubble Will Burst
Much of the US economy rests on AI's future. On this episode of podcast, cohost Joe Weisenthal breaks down why AI's impact on finance goes beyond billion-dollar investments. If you read any of WIRED's recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything--from coding to writing to accounting. You've also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very well be in an economic bubble of AI origin, one wherein the billions and billions of dollars being funneled into the industry is creating an untenable economic scenario that could turn catastrophic. Of course, you may also have read that I'm really sick of being asked about AI . I'm still not sick, though, of asking other people about it--especially when they're much smarter about this stuff than I am. Enter Joe Weisenthal, the cohost of Bloomberg's fantastic podcast, and a former coworker of mine. Trust me: As someone who spent a year listening to Joe lose his mind in the office--loudly!--anytime the economy hiccuped, few people think more about our country's, and our planet's, financial circumstances than Joe does. And right now, Joe's concerns aren't strictly about what happens if or when that AI bubble bursts. His worries are more focused on what's going right and wrong with the US economy writ large. For this week's episode of, Joe and I talked about weird market indicators, US competition with China, and whether or not we should all prepare for an AI economic apocalypse. Nice to see you again. We were just talking about how [you] and I worked together--what was that, like nine years ago? I think you were there 2014, 2015, so maybe 10 years ago or something? Yeah, I worked at Bloomberg. I lasted about a year. But Joe, you were there, you were loud, you were proud, you were always very excited about the economy.
Mapping the Milky Way: Incredible simulation charts more than 100 BILLION stars over the course of 10,000 years
The truth behind Trump's dramatic late-night Epstein file reversal: It wasn't a gamble, it was a tactic... and White House insiders say it's Democrats who will pay the price Doctor's warning about lesser discussed Mounjaro side effect - which has similar symptom to deadly bowel cancer The incredible new treatment that can cure liver cancer - without surgery, drugs or radiation. Roger had cirrhosis and thought he was going to die. Now he says: 'I'm so grateful' RFK Jr's alleged lover Olivia Nuzzi slammed over'daddy issues' as their texts over his'brain worm' emerge Tom Cruise breaks his silence over ex-wife Nicole Kidman's split from Keith Urban: 'Karma' North Korea executes'big shot' couple who became'arrogant' after the success of their business, accusing them of being'anti-republic' Movie icon'lost her virginity to her stepfather at 11', seduced her friend's 17-year-old son... but took a forbidden secret to her grave X is DOWN: Elon Musk's social media app crashes for thousands of users around the world Trump is being utterly humiliated by a dead pedophile. MAGA and his legacy are collapsing. AMANDA PLATELL: Everyone is saying the same thing about pampered Princess Beatrice and her latest PR stunt.
'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO?
'Palantir is the embodiment, in a lot of ways, of him' Alex Karp. 'Palantir is the embodiment, in a lot of ways, of him' Alex Karp. 'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO? His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. I n a recent interview, Alex Karp said that his company Palantir was "the most important software company in America and therefore in the world". He may well be right.
Interview with Mario Mirabile: trust in multi-agent systems
In a new series of interviews, we're meeting some of the PhD students that were selected to take part in the Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025) . During the conference in Bologna, we caught up with Mario Mirabile who is studying for his PhD in trustworthy AI and multi-agent systems at the University of Santiago de Compostela and is a Research Fellow in human-AI interaction at the University of Bologna. Mario, along with co-authors Frida Hartman and Michele Dusi, was also the winner of the ECAI-2025 Diversity & Inclusion Competition, for work entitled . This award was presented at the closing ceremony of the conference. Could you start by giving us an introduction to the topic you are working on?
Major UK project launched to tackle drug-resistant superbugs with AI
The UK is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the rising numbers of infections that have become resistant to treatment. The project - a collaboration between the Fleming Initiative and the pharmaceutical company GSK - is a battle between superbugs and supercomputers. It aims to speed up the discovery of fresh antibiotics and deliver new ways of killing other threats, including deadly fungal infections. Overusing antibiotics drives bacteria to evolve resistance to infections, which means new drugs are a priority. Drug-resistant infections are a growing problem - one known as the silent pandemic.
The Quick Red Fox gets the best Data Driven Classroom Interviews: A manual for an interview app and its associated methodology
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Data Driven Classroom Interviews (DDCIs) are an interviewing technique that is facilitated by recent technological developments in the learning analytics community. DDCIs are short, targeted interviews that allow researchers to contextualize students' interactions with a digital learning environment (e.g., intelligent tutoring systems or educational games) while minimizing the amount of time that the researcher interrupts that learning experience, and focusing researcher time on the events they most want to focus on DDCIs are facilitated by a research tool called the Quick Red Fox (QRF)--an open-source server-client Android app that optimizes researcher time by directing interviewers to users that have just displayed an interesting behavior (previously defined by the research team). QRF integrates with existing student modeling technologies (e.g., behavior-sensing, affect-sensing, detection of self-regulated learning) to alert researchers to key moments in a learner's experience. This manual documents the tech while providing training on the processes involved in developing triggers and interview techniques; it also suggests methods of analyses.
The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble
On this episode of, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble--and what that means for all of us. Chatter about an AI bubble has been everywhere lately, and top tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have doubled down on their AI investments for 2026. But how have analysts in the past accurately identified forming tech bubbles? Hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode sit down with Brian Merchant, WIRED contributor and author of the newsletter to break down the four criteria some researchers have used in the past to understand and brace for the worst. Please help us improve by filling out our listener survey . Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com . You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link . Hey Lauren, how are you doing? It's earnings season, so a lot of us on the business desk here at WIRED have been tuning into tech companies earnings reports and their earnings calls. And I guess that basically means it's CapEx season. Now that I'm a business desk reporter, I say CapEx. I throw it around at parties. But we are seeing a trend in how tech companies are sleeping on piles of money, but they aren't just sleeping on it. They're sharing big plans to spend on it, and especially to spend on AI infrastructure. And this is all partly what is fueling all of this talk about a bubble, which we touched on a little bit a couple of weeks ago with our colleague Molly Taft.
The State of AI: How war will be changed forever
In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O'Donnell, MIT Technology Review's senior AI reporter, consider the ethical quandaries and financial incentives around AI's use by the military. Welcome back to, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. In this conversation, Helen Warrell, investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O'Donnell, 's senior AI reporter, consider the ethical quandaries and financial incentives around AI's use by the military. It is July 2027, and China is on the brink of invading Taiwan. Autonomous drones with AI targeting capabilities are primed to overpower the island's air defenses as a series of crippling AI-generated cyberattacks cut off energy supplies and key communications. In the meantime, a vast disinformation campaign enacted by an AI-powered pro-Chinese meme farm spreads across global social media, deadening the outcry at Beijing's act of aggression.
OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful--and Have You Pay For It
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative. In case OpenAI's structure couldn't get any weirder--a nonprofit in charge of a for-profit that's become a public benefit corporation--it now has two CEOs. There's Sam Altman, chief executive of the whole company, who manages research and compute. And as of this summer, there's Fidji Simo, the former CEO of Instacart, who manages everything else. Simo hasn't been seen much at OpenAI's San Francisco office since she began as CEO of Applications in August. But her presence is felt at every level of the company--not least because she's heading up ChatGPT and basically every function that might make OpenAI money. Simo is dealing with a relapse of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) that makes her prone to fainting if she stands for long periods of time. "Being present from 8 am to midnight every day, responding within five minutes, people feel like I'm there and that they can reach me immediately, that I jump on the phone within five minutes," she tells me. Employees confirm that this is true. OpenAI's famously Slack-driven culture can be overwhelming for new hires. Employees say she is often seen popping into channels and threads, sharing thoughts and asking questions.