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In the aftermath of the LA fires, I visited John Mills, leader of the much hailed fire tracking app Watch Duty. Mills built the app because he's pissed, but now it has become a lifeline for residents and a community for volunteer first responders. @WIRED wired.com/story/watch-du…

New: AI writing is flooding the internet. I talked to a few tech reporters—largely Substackers without the resources of a major newsroom—who are using AI in thoughtful ways to make their scoops, news analysis, and journalism shine.

New: OpenAI saw the AI coding revolution coming years ago, but was beat to market by Anthropic. This is how OpenAI got in this position, and how a small Codex team spent the last year racing to build a billion-dollar competitor to Claude Code. (yes Codex now has >$1B in ARR)

Hey X! I'm a senior writer at WIRED and I'm shifting beats to cover the tech I'm most obsessed with right now—PREDICTION MARKETS. Eager to hear tips on the industry at kate_knibbs@wired.com

hey nice @StateFarm superbowl commercial, please keep in mind that State Farm makes disaster victims catalog every single item in their destroyed homes but then lowballs them on the value so they don't get their full policies theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (@booneashworth / Wired) wired.com/story/metas-la… #a260115p50" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260115/p50#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Great piece by @BooneAshworth today on our bounty program at @FuluFoundation. It’s crazy that when a company shuts down your app access for using a third-party part, the illegal thing is modifying that app to make it work again. wired.com/story/fulu-rep…

The @tbpn bros are live broadcasting from #MetaConnect with "Zuck, Boz, Alex Wang" while Meta execs are actually live on another stage (w/ James Cameron) and Diplo is now playing while Zuck literally jogs to other campus but smart glasses will def solve our attention problems🫠

There's *a lot* going on right now, but @BooneAshworth and I have been on Meta's campus all day and are here to learn more about Meta's latest rollout of smart glasses, which the company is now tying directly to its AI superintelligence efforts wired.com/story/meta-sma…

We reviewed the Friend pendant, and unsurprisingly hated it! "It is an incredibly antisocial device to wear," I wrote of my experience wearing it. "People were never excited to see it around my neck."

the recent wave of AI wearables is like a rerun of 2010-2015 in consumer tech. impressive how few lessons were learned.

@tbpn @AviSchiffmann hell yeah get his ass

After a tech journalist called the Friend pendant “an incredibly antisocial device,” we asked @AviSchiffmann (Co-Founder & CEO, Friend) how he sees it: “Maybe their friends just didn’t like them, I don’t think they ever considered that.” “It’s funny. If somebody comes into a relationship and they already hate the person, what’s the dynamic going to be like? I imagine they went in pretty prejudiced.” “I have a lot of users who talk to Friend all day, every day for months. You don’t want it to be a sycophant, you want it to be entertaining to talk to.”

listening to this lol i did not go into the review expecting to hate it! also was aware im not the target audience for an always listening device

the reviews are rolling in

We tried the Friend AI necklace. It was a bad hang.

A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (@booneashworth / Wired) wired.com/story/these-tr… #a250703p4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/250703/p4#a250… twitter.com/Techmeme/statu…

BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many of whom came from rival AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election." Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going to war—and giving everyone a front row seat. wired.com/story/elon-mus…

haha i'm good thanks

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