Elana Klein

the bachelors of palantir and tesla are NOT OK!

Nathan Fielder is on the cover of @wired.com this month. I interviewed him about Elizabeth Holmes, his extraordinary new film, and whether anyone can ever know what the hell is going on with another person. An exclusive! And quite an experience. Read the full interview here:

As part of Fielder Day for @wired.com we asked @jetjocko.bsky.social to grapple with how WIRED initially fell for, and covered, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. He over-delivered with this spectacular piece:

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Scoop from @timmarchman.bsky.social & I: New WH press secretary Katie Zacharia never passed the bar, despite calling herself an attorney. She was, however, once part of a multi-level-marketing fitness program that she described to us as "sort of a pyramid scheme" www.wired.com/story/white-...

does your family fight about AI? have you tried to convince siblings/parents/uncles to stop using it? TALK TO ME! dms are open...

@elanaklein.bsky.social — looks like you've got #Palantir's "head of strategic engagement" concerned. 😂

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

The thundering lack of awareness. My gob, it is smacked.

If you're in need of a pick me up, may I suggest reading this article about how tech bros can't get laid by Elana Klein?

NEW COVER(S)!!!! For our first WIRED Woman issue, we did no fewer than four covers, starring the iconic Patti Harrison as our favorite tech leaders, in our favorite moments for them

THE UNDATEABLE TECH BRO ™️

big tech's fall from grace is affecting the sex lives of rank-and-file tech bros. READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

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Fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle has partnered with the data infrastructure giant Palantir for a “food safety risk platform.” It comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US.

Meet the new WIRED app: the best way to read, watch, and listen to our journalism. To celebrate this launch, we’re giving app users full, free access to WIRED for a limited time. All you need to do is create an account. buff.ly/H3Zt1a5

that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died

They don't call Mina the GOAT for nothing

As a fellow zero unread email I get all the love for that. But it’s the “looking for work” thing I’m in 100% agreement with.

"candidly, i feel like facetiming someone who is outside of your family is insane behavior"

spoke to mina "inbox zero" kimes!!!!

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

Help @wired.com figure out what working in tech is like -- especially if you are not a man -- in the age of AI! We need to hear from the people. Take this survey, send it to your friends and foes, sing it from the rooftops, tattoo it on your body, etc., etc. se1.decipherinc.com/survey/selfs...?

NEW: A federal judge threw out ICE's claim that state inspection law didn’t apply inside its detention centers. But since it took so long to adjudicate, ICE has now written the same language into contracts for four more facilities. It doesn’t need to hold up. It just needs to take years to resolve.

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The kids are alright 😎

My kid was one of those interviewed for this - check out why he and his peers think genAI sucks.

And the children shall lead.

"Artificial Idiot" That's what I'm calling it from now on, lol.

“everybody shames people for using AI” “it continuously is dumbing down just the whole community within school in general” “i think it should stand for artificial idiot” i had the pleasure of talking about AI with some particularly thoughtful, healthily cynical kids. here's what they had to say:

“I think it should stand for ‘artificial idiot,’” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.” www.wired.com/story/some-k...

NEW: Madison Square Garden's sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners recently made a major exception -- for Taylor Swift. Scoop from @noahshachtman.bsky.social. Free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to:

Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:

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Happening soon! 📚 For our very first WIRED Book Club livestream, “The Yahoo Boys” author Carlos Barragán will join WIRED Senior Writer Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers. Our livestream starts at 12pm ET. Join us at the link!

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“You can make a living, you can have a life, and leave 55,000 emails unread with a big fuck off.” www.wired.com/story/pete-h...

Whether you agree with Bernie Sanders or not, he's been consistent for decades about one thing: concentrated wealth threatens democracy. Now he's making the same case about AI. For the @wired.com Big Interview, I sat down with Sanders -- as vociferous as ever! -- to talk about that and much more.

That Dialog data exposure keeps getting worse. The records include personal information on a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer. That means date of birth, home address, mobile number, headshot photo, political leanings and more...

NEW: As resistance to data centers grows, I noticed some interesting convos happening online.... electricians are debating whether wiring data centers is morally neutral, or if it makes you a sell-out. To learn more, I spoke with electricians engaged in this debate: www.wired.com/story/data-c...

NEW: Dialog, the invite-only network cofounded by Peter Thiel, ranks its members based on money and fame — informing who’s in, who’s out, how much they pay to attend retreats, and even where they’re seated.

“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.

Another week, another Meta PR disaster. Are we shocked? Nahhhh. Here's your Meta chaos roundup. Enjoy 💅1/

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It's interactive. It's violent. It's frequently disgusting. This is Fishtank, a streaming reality show that's like Big Brother...but with zero rules and absolutely no standards. For our June cover story, @wired.com goes inside -- and on camera.

A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.