Buying Warner Bros. Gives Netflix What It's Always Needed: An Identity The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century's worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to . It also ends the streaming wars. In a deal to acquire Warner Bros. announced Friday, Netflix will be scooping up HBO's many titles, including Courtesy of HBO Close your eyes, think for a minute, and tell me: What is a Netflix Movie? OK, try again: What is a Netflix Show? Sure, it's easy to rattle off some killer titles--, --but Netflix has never really had a brand identity.

Lisa Su leads Nvidia's biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED's Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, the company's CEO said "Emphatically, from my perspective, no." Earlier this year, WIRED said that AMD CEO Lisa Su was " out for Nvidia's blood ." The American chipmaker is still small compared to the juggernaut that is Nvidia--their market caps are $353 billion and $4.4 trillion, respectively--but Su's company is gaining steam. Today, when Su took the stage at WIRED's Big Interview conference in San Francisco, she had something else in her sights: the AI bubble .

Guillermo del Toro Hopes He's Dead Before AI Art Goes Mainstream The director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros. Guillermo del Toro attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix's during the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Guillermo del Toro loves a challenge. Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed "half-assed," and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in, his adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes--as well as some embellishing of Shelley's story--could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee's jokes. Stop me if you've heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she's not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best way to talk about STEM is to make jokes at its expense. Based in London, the comedian had a strong interest in science as a kid, but after attending the University of Brighton to study chemistry, she realized that she liked learning science more than she liked applying it. Her thesis dissertation--"Synthesis of Iron Nitroxide radical species using radical derivatized ligands and its use as a single-molecule magnet"--flopped.

The latest film in the franchise seems to have not learned any lessons from sci-fi movies past--or from current reality. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about, started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized the tech bro who made him might be a hack.

WIRED's Politics Issue Cover Is Coming to a City Near You We're turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here's how to find it. Here at WIRED, we tend to stick to journalism. We talk about our work to anyone who will listen--during podcasts, on social media, over dinner with our politely listening friends--but we tend to confine our bragging to the scoops we get, the stories we write. For our new politics issue, though, we decided to do something different and bring WIRED's work to outside, to you, directly.

It might sound like a scene ripped straight from The Matrix series, but the ramifications of Artificial Intelligence are troubling to Keanu Reeves. Speaking to Wired, the Canadian star aired his grievances with recent developments in technology, including ChatGPT and the Metaverse. At one point, Reeves asked his interviewer, Angela Watercutter, if she thought a bot could take her place and be conducting celebrity interviews in the future. When Watercutter said that she didn't think such a thing would happen in her lifetime, Reeves gave an ominous response. Looking his interviewer'dead in the eye', Reeves said: "Oh no, you should be worried about that happening next month."

Before it was even released, Homecoming was notable for many reasons. For one, it was the new project from Mr. Robot mastermind Sam Esmail. For another, it marked Julia Roberts' first turn leading an episodic television show. And finally, the Amazon original series was one of Hollywood's first big bets on adapting podcasts for the screen. Sam Esmail's Homecoming Is Nothing Like Mr. Robot Where Is Hollywood Looking for Its Next Hit?

When Silicon Valley came back this season, viewers may not have known what to expect, but they certainly knew what not to expect. T.J. Miller's much-ballyhooed exit meant that the show would be without its most dependable (if incompetent) trickster. Since the HBO show's inception, Erlich Bachman had been the perfect agent of chaos: shortsighted, greedy, and insecure enough to constantly undercut the Pied Piper gang without being an actual antagonist. Couple his departure that with the show's increasingly how are they gonna get out of this--oh, they just did narrative curlicues, and even fans would have been forgiven for assuming the worst for Season 5. Is that how the newest batch turned out? The season, which wrapped up last night, felt as ripped-from-the-headlines as other years--this time cryptocurrency flameouts, Tesla, and Sophia the robot got the parody treatment--but it also added some new variables to the mix.

Friends, humans, rapidly-evolving robots, the time has finally come: Westworld Season 2 is here. After nearly 17 months, HBO's futuristic thriller about a theme park where the rich can live out their Wild West fantasies with android "hosts" finally returns on Sunday. At the end of the first season, it seemed as though some of the hosts were starting to gain more agency than robots are supposed to have (or were they?) and there were a lot of mysteries left unsolved. In anticipation of the Season 2 debut, WIRED got together some of our biggest Westworld aficionados to hash out our hopes and dreams for the second season. Do we think these violent delights have violent ends?