May 14, 2026 7:00 AM

A Note From WIRED Leadership

EDITOR's NOTE 5/29/26: After an additional review of an excerpt from The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, WIRED editorial leadership has determined that it does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed.

Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

Kate Knibbs

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

Dell Cameron

CVS Is Switching to Aluminum Pill Bottles

They’re much more recyclable than the current plastic ones, and they will still probably be locked away behind that anti-theft plexiglass.

Boone Ashworth

Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Miles Klee

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Parker Hall

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

Dell Cameron

Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion

Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.

Lauren Goode

Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to a select group of US companies and government agencies.

Maxwell Zeff

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.

Reece Rogers

The DEA Plans to Ban Opioid-Like Kratom Compound 7-OH

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA and the mainstream kratom industry.

Manisha Krishnan

Peter Thiel’s Husband Sued a Flight Attendant Who Says He Assaulted Her on a Private Jet

Matthew Danzeisen’s lawyer says the case is a “shakedown about a bag” that brushed someone’s leg. Stefanie Bojar says she was injured aboard the jet—and that the lawsuit is a bullying tactic.

Dhruv Mehrotra

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

Maddy Varner