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Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In?
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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech.
On Tuesdays, The Big Interview with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond in conversation with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond for a discussion captured through the WIRED lens.
On Thursdays, WIRED writers and editors Zoë Schiffer, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger add you to the Slack group thread to let you into what they’re hearing from sources in Silicon Valley and D.C, read you into what trends you should be watching for and how WIRED is thinking about it all.
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- Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In? · 23 minNvidia’s co-founder Jensen Huang has officially resigned after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset and facing a report of a second alleged affair…
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s $470 Billion Affair · 26 minNvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a businesswoman US intelligence says was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security prompting an…
- Louis Rossmann Wants More People to Care About the Right to Repair · 34 minThe outspoken consumer rights advocate, Louis Rossmann, knows the incoming Democrat-heavy Congress has a lot to get done. But he hopes one of those things is letting you fix your…
- How Elon Musk and Big Tech Poured Millions Into the Midterms, and Lost · 34 minThe midterm results delivered a rebuke not just to the Trump administration, but also to Big Tech. This week, the WIRED’s politics team takes over to break down how Democrats…
- ‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers · 40 minAhead of the midterms, WIRED talked with New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party. Join WIRED’s best and brightest on…
- How a Contractor's AI Agent Got Into the Pentagon; Anthropic’s Doomer IPO; ICE at the Polls? · 34 minThis week, we have a scoop on how a defense contractor connected their Claude Code commercial account to a secure Department of Defense system, exposing sensitive information. We…
- UK Politician Jess Asato Got Deepfaked. Now She’s Taking xAI to Court · 38 minJess Asato’s public campaigning for victims of online abuse put her in the crosshairs of Grok’s deepfake scandal. Then the UK Member of Parliament became a victim of the abuse…
- Will Musk Give Your Kid a SpaceX Share?; Inside the Secret Nathan Fielder Interview · 34 minThis week, the team speaks with Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond to go behind the scenes of her viral interview with Nathan Fielder about his latest documentary, You Can…
- Sexual Assault Is a Free Speech Issue · 40 minMary Anne Franks has spent years fighting against online abuse. When people are abused with impunity, she says, the message becomes “We do not care about women's voices.” Join…
- From The Big Story: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything · 50 minIncluding what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters. The conversation between Katie…
- Meta’s Muse Won’t Stop Sexting · 32 minTurns out, Meta’s AI agent Muse goes well beyond managing your calendar: it will also sext with you. This week, Brian and Leah are joined by WIRED’s reporter Reece Rogers to…
- Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Documentary Has a Unique Perspective on Daddy Issues · 34 minWhen asked, Elon’s father Errol Musk agreed to be interviewed immediately. Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics…
- Inside Elon Musk's Midterm Spending Spree; What Is Effective Altruism Exactly? · 29 minThis week, the team dives into how Elon Musk's America PAC is spending millions on the most consequential Senate races of the 2026 midterms — and how most of that money goes to…
- Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI · 36 minThe author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.” Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they…
- Are AI Agents Worth the Risk? and Trump’s Pinky Swear AI Safety ‘Accord · 43 minThis week, President Trump issued a new “morally binding” AI accord after a lunch meeting with tech executives, that basically says the AI labs are going to regulate themselves…
- There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru · 32 minOne of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. Check out the new WIRED app. Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny…
- Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women's Lives · 19 minLast year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. That is until one day, a series of anonymous accounts on X started proliferating explicit…
- Patti Harrison Grew Up With Tech As Her North Star. Not Anymore · 35 minComedian Patti Harrison hates social media. She wishes she didn't have to use it at all. To her, the internet is a slop factory. One of her biggest concerns: intentionally…
- What Would the AI Apocalypse Look Like? We Went Looking for Answers · 37 minThe debate of whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but how exactly would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, the team went looking for answers and found…
- If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel · 34 minEmily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. This month, she’s releasing her newest novel, Exit Party, which imagines two…
- So, Can AI Kill Us All?; Apple’s Foldable iPhone; the Census’ Bad Data Problem · 30 minThis week, an AI researcher's resignation from Anthropic went viral on social media after he claimed there's a real chance AI could wipe out humanity by decade's end. WIRED’s…
- MS NOW Wants to Turn Its Viewers Into a Fandom · 29 minWhen Rebecca Kutler accepted the job as president of cable news channel MS Now, formerly known as MSNBC, she knew what she was getting into. The top 3 cable news channel, MS was…
- How Flock Cameras Actually Work; George Santos' Kalshi Ban; AI Rogue "Civilizations" · 32 minWe're back! This week, the team discusses the two incidents that have been making noise in prediction markets: George Santos getting lifetime ban from Kalshi, and a Google…
- LegalEagle, the Internet’s Favorite Lawyer, Makes Sense of ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’ (Re-air) · 40 minDevin Stone, the lawyer better known as LegalEagle on YouTube, has been breaking down legal cases - and assessing the accuracy of legal procedurals in film and television -- for…
- AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate? · 22 minThe AI race has been framed as a zero-sum game: either the U.S or China will win at the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models — especially…
- Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Says He's Still a Techno-Optimist (Re-air) · 53 minKatie sits down with the Westworld showrunner, Jonah Nolan for a wide ranging conversation about what keeps him coming back to sci-fi storytelling about technology and human…
- What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? · 23 minEarlier this year, insurance executives gathered in a Times Square conference room to play out a scenario — a Chinese cyberattack that knocks out 5,000 US water utilities at…
- Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton CEO Says It Will Have To · 41 minAndy Yen is co-founder of Proton, a Geneva-based company that operates a suite of privacy focused products like email, calendars, password managers and more. A former physicist…
- Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Explained; Inside Black Hat and DEF CON's Best Hacks · 33 minThis week, the team breaks down Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto and why it ultimately rings hollow. Plus — why job seekers are scheduling bot-run interviews…
- Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor (Re-air) · 37 minBefore he burst through the 2025 primaries, Zohran Mamdani was polling at the same level as literally "someone else." Then-candidate Zohran Mamdani sat down with Katie to talk…
- How ICE Has Been Collecting DNA; SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon · 33 minThis week, the team breaks down how ICE has collected DNA from nearly a million people this year, including young children, feeding an FBI database indefinitely. Plus — Google…
- Everyone Is Using AI in Hollywood · 52 minWhen Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported on Amazon MGM Studios decision to dump their Sam Altman biopic mere months after announced an enormous investment into OpenAI to the tune of…
- How Claude Chats Got Exposed on Google; Inside Trump's AI Policy Chaos · 30 minThis week, Nvidia launched a splashy push for an open source AI security alliance alongside companies like Microsoft, SpaceX, and Palantir — notably absent were OpenAI and…
- Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords? · 44 minA.G. Sulzberger, who took on the publisher role at The New York Times a decade ago and has been an influential leader in the Times’ much-lauded push into digital innovation, has…
- Did China’s Moonshot AI Steal From Anthropic?; OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models · 35 minThis week, the White House accused Chinese-owned Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 to build their much talked about Kimi K3 model. Zoë, Leah, and Brian break down…
- Stanford Grads Say Big Tech Is Creating a 'Modern-Day Draft’ · 42 minMore than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us…
- Why Apple Sued OpenAI; New York Takes On Data Centers; Cyclosporiasis Outbreak · 38 minThis week, the team discusses the details behind Apple suing OpenAI over alleged stolen hardware secrets. And the company's headaches don't stop there — a group of OpenAI…
- We Interviewed a Puppet and It Made A Lot of Sense · 41 minAttitudes around social media are changing. A Pew Research study found that about half of teens surveyed in 2024 felt that social media had a mostly negative impact on their age…
- Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X; Trump Phone Review; Maine's Senate Race Implodes · 19 minThreads recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X — but is it really competing, or just filling a different niche? Meanwhile, the reviews have been coming…
- From Mixed Signals: Bluesky COO Rose Wang on building a better social network · 40 minBluesky COO Rose Wang joins our friends at Semafor's Mixed Signals to talk about the platform’s reputation as a politically charged space — and betting on a decentralized…
- Bernie Sanders Wants You to Own Half the Profits from AI · 38 minWhile many politicians are still getting their bearings around AI, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has taken a leading stance. He’s proposed a sovereign wealth fund, to allow…
- Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie; Data Center Workers Are Fighting Back · 35 minThis week, the team discusses Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman — which reportedly did not paint him in a favorable light…
- Until Trump Fires Her, Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom · 40 minPresident Trump probably can’t get rid of her yet, but FCC commissioner Anna Gomez still checks her email every day to see if he has. Until then, she wants to stand up for the…
- Tim Heidecker Thinks Twitter Should Be a World Heritage Site · 43 minThe satirical news publication The Onion is trying to take over Infowars, formerly owned by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and planning to put comedian Tim Heidecker…
- Why Anthropic Shut Down Its Best AI (Special News Update) · 22 minOver the weekend, the Trump administration placed export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — their most advanced AI models — citing national security concerns…
- Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares; Inside the Knicks' Owner's Surveillance Machine · 43 minThis week, the team discusses Apple’s Siri AI brand new release, SpaceX officially going public — and who will benefit the most from it. They also get into how Meta removed a…
- Trump Foe Mounts Competitive Senate Bid in Florida · 44 minWhen Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman, a key witness in President Trump’s first impeachment trial, announced he was running for one of Florida’s senate seats, he was…
- The AI IPO Race Gets Weird; Elon Musk Sued By DOGE Whistleblower; Instagram's Hacking Incident · 30 minThis week, the team discusses why the race among the top AI companies to go public has just gotten started but it is already creating bizarre repercussions — including numerous…
- The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance · 42 minFormula 1 racing is a global phenomenon. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown joins Katie to break down the historic turnaround of one of motorsport’s most iconic legacy teams. After…
- How Crypto Scam Compounds Use Romance to Make Billions · 19 minLast year, a mysterious source reached out to WIRED’s senior writer Andy Greenberg — someone who claimed to be an engineer trapped in a scam compound in Laos. According to the…
