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05.20.25

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What It’s Like to Interview for a Job at DOGE

BY VITTORIA ELLIOTT | 5-MINUTE READ

WIRED spoke with someone who applied for a job at Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE and discussed the five-step hiring process.

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DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters

BY BRIAN BARRETT | 3-MINUTE READ

A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”

✚ Also in the news: Trump signs controversial law targeting nonconsensual sexual content

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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

BY KATE KNIBBS | 11-MINUTE READ

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

BY KEACH HAGEY | 13-MINUTE READ

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

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Featuring Never-Before-Seen Testimony From Those Involved

“Enthralling.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Can be read on multiple levels, from true-life spy thriller to dark history” (Booklist).

WENCHANG, CHINA - MARCH 12: The Long March-8 Y6 carrier rocket carrying a group of 18 low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site on March 12, 2025 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. The satellites, the fifth group of its kind, have entered the preset orbit successfully, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). They will constitute China's commercial internet constellation Spacesail. This mission marks the inaugural launch from the site's No. 1 launch pad, which, following the inaugural launch from the No. 2 pad on November 30, 2024, signifies the dual-pad readiness of China's first commercial spaceport for future missions. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

China’s Effort to Build a Competitor to Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start

BY ZEYI YANG | 7-MINUTE READ

China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk's SpaceX, but progress is hampered by launch bottlenecks and high failure rates.

A Silicon Valley VC Says He Got the IDF Starlink Access Within Days of October 7 Attack

BY CAROLINE HASKINS | 4-MINUTE READ

Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire said in a webinar hosted by Israel’s Defense Ministry that he connected the IDF with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet far sooner than believed.

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What to Expect When You’re Convicted

BY ELANA KLEIN | 4-MINUTE READ

When a formerly incarcerated “troubleshooter for the mafia” looked for a second career he chose the thing he knew best. He became a prison consultant for white-collar criminals.