Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital ...
Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more
Steven Levy / Wired : X: @elkeschwarz , @knibbs , @samuelclay , and @matthewboedy X: Prof. Elke Schwarz / @elkeschwarz : Christ! (Pun intended) ... this is one hot mess of an interview. Every week mi...
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative co-founded by a former director at Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer does
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies. Tweets: @martinsfp , @reversechapter , @micsolana , @epro...
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies. Tweets: @martinsfp , @pt , @gabor , @stevenlevy , and @ch...
Inside Meta's Oversight Board after two years: $150M funding through 2025, ~2M appeals, 28 rulings, and 119 recommendations, as it begins to win over critics
Mark Zuckerberg set up the panel to investigate how his company handles controversial posts. Now its members want to transform how social platforms work. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @klonick , and @codycom...
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenbjohnson , @stevenlev...
An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden
having crashed and burned after Elizabeth Warren's blowtorch attack in the Las Vegas debate—but part of it survives as a hundred-person operation dedicated to electing Joe Biden and other Democrats. h...
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination
In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , and @stevenlevy Tweets: Steven Le...
US government reigniting the crypto wars of the 90s as tech companies implement strong encryption by default post-Snowden
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? — The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. Tweets: @christophera and @eff Twee...