StatGeist: Charting the Wired World

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.