Wired25 Portraits
Street photographer Michelle Groskopf criss-crossed the country to shoot everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates.
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Michelle Groskopf03__Susan Wojcicki__, YouTube CEO
Michelle Groskopf04__Sebastian Thrun__, computer scientist
Michelle Groskopf05__Jiwoo Lee__, Stanford sophomore
Michelle Groskopf06__Jony Ive__, Apple’s chief design officer
Michelle Groskopf07__Elizabeth Blackburn__, Nobel-winning biologist
Michelle Groskopf08__Sean Parker__, Napster cofounder
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Michelle Groskopf10__Jennifer Doudna__, Crispr codiscoverer
Michelle Groskopf11__Kai-Fu Lee__, AI pioneer-turned-VC
Michelle Groskopf12__Anand Giridharadas__, author of *Winners Take All*
Michelle Groskopf13__Mark Zuckerberg__, Facebook cofounder
Michelle Groskopf14__Keller Rinaudo__, CEO of Zipline
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Lauren Goode
OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
Maxwell Zeff
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Tim Marchman
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A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.
Will Knight
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
Maxwell Zeff
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands
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AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
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Will Knight
UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos
As AI agents go rogue and fears of superintelligence grow, politicians are raising the alarm over its potential harm to human existence.
Isabella Ward
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
Kate Knibbs
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
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