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We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

GARRETT M. GRAFF

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO

JAGMEET SINGH

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight) (2026)

EMILY PECK

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body.

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens’ screen time and friends

AISHA MALIK

With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off

JAGMEET SINGH

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal

WILL KNIGHT

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots

BENJ EDWARDS, ARS TECHNICA

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.

7 Best Smart Locks (2026) for Front Doors, Side Doors, and Even Garages

NENA FARRELL

Upgrade your locks with fingerprint-scanning or a keypad, whether it’s at the front door or a sliding glass entryway.

The Best Motorola Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

JULIAN CHOKKATTU

Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colorful designs, and simple software make them good, wallet-friendly Android smartphones.

Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada

SARAH PEREZ

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

Best Nintendo Switch 2 Accessories (2026): Controllers, Cases, and More

BRAD BOURQUE

Looking to jazz up your portable gaming experience? Here are the best accessories we’ve tested for the Nintendo Switch 2.

Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial

LAUREN GOODE, WIRED.COM

Company is pulling out all the stops to protect itself in advance of New Mexico trial.

Blue Origin schedules third New Glenn launch for late February, but not to the moon

SEAN O'KANE

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claude

RUSSELL BRANDOM

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

RAM IYER

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.