Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are'Next' The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states. The Trump administration appears to be deploying the same playbook it used in Minnesota --leveraging allegations of fraud to justify significant federal oversight --in other blue states across the country, starting with California and New York. "POTUS loves Minnesota and the people. It's a state where he received historic Republican support, and he has long called out [Governor Tim] Walz for his incompetence and terrible leadership," a senior White House official tells WIRED.

Kodiak AI autonomous trucks have driven over 3 million miles on real roads. Daniel Goff says the company achieved the highest safety score from Nauto.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini How to claim Verizon's $20 credit for Wednesday's service outage It isn't applied automatically, because of course it isn't. Verizon is offering a very small after Wednesday's massive outage, which drew more than 1.5 million reports on Downdetector and lasted hours. The carrier posted on X that it will offer a $20 credit, but customers must redeem it in the myVerizon app. This credit isn't meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can, the company wrote.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB, saying they've reached'end of life' YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed suggests neither model will return. If you have more money to spend, the RTX 5070 Ti is a performance beast. YouTube channel is reporting that NVIDIA has "effectively" discontinued the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS "explicitly" told it the RTX 5070 Ti is "currently facing a supply shortage." As a result, the company has "placed the model into end of life status," and no longer plans to produce it. The 5060 Ti 16GB "is almost done as well, with ASUS stating it no longer plans to produce that model going forward either.

PCWorld reports that laptop manufacturers rushed to meet Microsoft's 40 TOPS NPU requirement for Copilot+ PCs, only to see Microsoft shift strategy away from NPU dependence. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm now offer powerful NPUs (48-80 TOPS) in new processors, but limited software applications currently utilize this specialized AI hardware.

Anthropic's Claude Cowork Is an AI Agent That Actually Works Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic's Claude Code AI-powered tool that's built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here's what it's like to use it. As a software reporter at WIRED, I've tested a lot of shitty agents over the past couple of years. These experiences expose a consistent pattern of generative AI startups overpromising and underdelivering when it comes to these "agentic" helpers--programs designed to take control of your computer, performing chores and digital errands to free up your time for more important things. But the bots I installed on my laptop would struggle to complete even basic tasks.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Reclaim stolen African artifacts with your crew on February 10. The intriguing Africanfuturist heist game,, is out on February 10. Developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, the game focuses on a ragtag crew from Johannesburg that liberates real-life African artifacts from a series of fictionalized Western museums. You have to carefully plan each heist with your fellow teammates, knowing where to place each crew member and how you're going to get in and out in one piece. Once you've grabbed the artifact you're looking for in each mission, an alarm will sound and you have a limited amount of time to escape, so good preparation is vital.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 expansion has arrived earlier than expected The Switch 2 update is live, as well. For a number of very obvious reasons, we don't want to roll back the clock to early 2020. But if there was a feel-good lockdown story, it was the perfectly timed arrival of, which allowed friends who could no longer meet up IRL to do so virtually on their carefully pruned islands. The game will almost certainly never be as popular as it was back then again, but Nintendo is hoping a good chunk of lapsed islanders will return for its latest DLC drop, which arrived on January 14, a day earlier than planned. The Switch 2 update went live as expected on January 15.

Two representatives re-introduced a'click-to-cancel' bill to end sneaky fee traps. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Two elected officials hope their new bipartisan bill will help finally put an end to the mountains of unwanted subscription renewal fees plaguing everyday consumers. "Subscription traps have become an accepted inconvenience for American consumers. Too many companies rely on deceptive business models that force people to jump through hoops just to cancel," Representative Amodei said in a joint statement .

Can ChatGPT really help you change your life - or just flatter you? Can ChatGPT really help you change your life - or just flatter you? AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn't and what to look out for It's becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance - but this doesn't come without risks Setting goals is hard; keeping them is harder - and failure can bring about icky feelings about yourself. This year, in an effort to game the system and tilt the scales toward success, some people used AI for their 2026 resolutions. It's the latest step in an ongoing trend: in September 2025, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released findings showing that using the AI chatbot for personal guidance is very common.