On wired, we Obsessed with changes in the world – Recently, there have been many obsessions. From the speed of breakthrough in AI research to the structural transformation of the entire U.S. federal government, Wired’s reporters, producers and editors are committed to reporting from the front-line reports of these changes and bringing everyone to everyone.
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I’m incredibly proud that our work this year has often achieved the lofty goals we set for ourselves: WIRED journalists have produced groundbreaking reporting on DOGE’s disruption of federal agencies, unearthed ambiguousies in the Jeffery Epstein video, delivered a constant drumbeat of clear-eyed coverage on AI’s real-world impact (and the AI industry’s outrageous talent wars), and found the time to execute on narrative stories that run from murder cult caused by AI to quantum apocalypse around the corner.
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There are many reasons to excite Wired’s future. But it is important to recognize that we are doing this in an information ecosystem that is changing before our eyes: a platform that is used like a wired channel for connecting readers, listeners, and audiences is failing in real time; Facebook traffic disappeared a few years ago, and now Google searches are gradually declining as companies redeem users to rely on AI overviews rather than linking to reliable publishers. More and more users are also skipping Google completely and choosing to use chatbots such as Chatgpt or Claude to find information that once relied on news media. Meanwhile, the slope and false and false information generated by AI are oozing into every pore of the internet, polluting social media feeds and flooding news and human-driven storytelling.
At Wired, we solved this so-called “traffic apocalypse” and the Internet’s AI sloped solution, which was simple: connect our humans to everyone.
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