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Steven Levy

@stevenlevy
84 posts
2026-03-07
Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating.  Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age.  He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism.  And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack- dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/
2026-03-07 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more

Conversations w @Jack are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/...
2026-03-07 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more

2026-03-06
Conversations w @Jack are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/...
2026-03-06 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating.  Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age.  He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism.  And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack- dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/
2026-03-06 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

2025-12-04
Even before launch these AI hearing aids have become the in-ear Birkin bag of the elite (of a certain age). Here's why. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-12-04 View on X
Wired

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip

AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. X: @recurrented , @mikeisaac , @franklinleonard , @stev...

2025-11-10
The key question I had for @PalantirTech CEO Alex Karp, who provides his powerful tech to ICE and Israeli military: at what point does misuse of your product make you end such relationships? Hear his answers on this and much more https://www.wired.com/...
2025-11-10 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more

Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights.  But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him? X: @stevenlevy , @shannonrwatts , and @spencerhakimian . Blues...

2025-11-03
We're all obsessed with AGI. Ever wonder where it came from? The answer will surprise you. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-11-03 View on X
Wired

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.

2025-09-23
When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders—and me—to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-09-23 View on X
Wired

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 impu...

2025-07-12
“The Clause [where OpenAI denies its models to Microsoft once they achieve AGI] embodies the raging divide between those who think that AGI is just a kiss away and those who think it's a pipe dream in the near- and even mid-term.”  Read on, folks. www.wired.com/story/micros...
2025-07-12 View on X
Wired

Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI

Questions like “what biases are in the training data” and “can I keep my data out of the LLM” are critical to corporations and people! [embedded post] @breadbunny : openAi believer...

2025-06-04
I spoke to Google Deepmind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis on post-AGI abundance, the future of search, and his lifelong quest to decode reality. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-06-04 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more

Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.

2025-04-10
The House subcommittee hearing is a nightmare for Meta—both sides of the aisle are embracing “Careless People” author Sarah Wynn-Williams, and this will be hours of unmitigated Zuckerberg bashing.
2025-04-10 View on X
Associated Press

Senate testimony: Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, “ignored warnings” on China potentially accessing US user data, and more

Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday …

2025-03-28
My deep dive into Anthropic, formed by idealistic OpenAI defectors who believe they can achieve AGI safely. They are doomers and Utopians at the same time. Their most important collaborator is also their product: Claude. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-03-28 View on X
Wired

Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more

The brother goes on vision quests.  The sister is a former English major.  Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic …

2025-03-23
At 30, Yahoo is still alive.  I spoke with CEO Jim Lanzone to make sense of its purple haze of a history, check out his turnaround plans, and look at its future.  (reposted w right link) www.wired.com/story/plaint...
2025-03-23 View on X
Wired

An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in “building mode”, AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more

Few brands in tech can say they've shaped the internet for three decades.  Yahoo can. … Rob Wilk : Great story featuring Jim Lanzone and the progress we're making every day here at...

2025-03-15
Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider—who signed an NDA!—is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-03-15 View on X
Wired

Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector

Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era.  But that hasn't stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

2025-03-08
A rare update on the quest to solve the encoded message in Kryptos, Jim Sanborn's famous sculpture on CIA grounds.  Sanborn is miffed at people using AI to complete the solution—the models tell people they've cracked it and it's always wrong, It also burns energy! www.wired.com/story/plaint...
2025-03-08 View on X
Wired

Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ, says he's frustrated with amateurs falsely claiming they cracked the 35-year unsolved code using AI

Jim Sanborn's inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they've cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

2025-03-01
Taara, the Alphabet X project that's internet fiber without the cable (it's a laser beam) has now developed a chip that could make the technology cheaper and maybe ubiquitous. Taara will soon spin out of Alphabet with outside funding. My exclusive. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-03-01 View on X
Wired

Taara, a project under Alphabet's moonshot X lab, unveils a new silicon photonic chip that uses light to transmit high-speed data through the air

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

2024-12-07
In prepping for my Tim Cook interview I had some rare conversations w Apple sr execs and came up with a narrative of how Apple Intelligence came about. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
2024-12-07 View on X
Wired

Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more

Steven Levy / Wired : Bluesky: @stevenlevy . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : In prepping for my Tim Cook interview I had some rare conversations w Apple sr...

2024-12-04
When I heard off the record—months ago —that Stevie Wonder got a demo of Apple Vision Pro I was desperate to get it on the record. As part of my Big Interview, Tim Cook himself confirmed!
2024-12-04 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more

Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.

2024-11-21
Here's a tweet stream drawn from the lead of my deep dive into the “re-founding” (as Satya Nadella puts it) of Microsoft. It was an eye opening experience to revisit a company I covered so closely over years.
2024-11-21 View on X
Wired

How Satya Nadella put Microsoft back on top, including by cleaning up its toxic culture, embracing open source, and crafting the OpenAI deal, as it nears 50

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool.  He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top. Mastodon: ...

2024-10-20
This week I wrote about a historic handmade crypto system and the recent code crack that rescued it from lockdown. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-20 View on X
Wired

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid

John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.