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4 May 2026 Vol 19

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Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

People without coding backgrounds are discovering that they can build their own custom apps using so-called vibe coding — solutions…

Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

Reddit suggested on Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business — not…

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high 

Amazon Web Services ended 2025 with its strongest quarterly growth rate in more than three years. The company reported Thursday…

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested…

The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most

Proclaiming that we live in a tech-centric society understates its saturation.  Software, specifically machine learning and AI, coupled with advanced…

A16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers 

The AI investing boom (or perhaps bubble) is something Silicon Valley has seen many times before: a gold rush of…

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is…

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agentic coding tool marketed to software developers. Today, OpenAI also launched a new model…

9 Great Deals on WIRED-Approved Valentine’s Day Gifts (2026)

Love is in the air, and the WIRED Reviews team has been hard at work finding all sorts of Valentine’s…

One of Europe’s largest universities knocked offline for days after cyberattack

The computer systems of La Sapienza in Rome, one of the largest universities in Europe with around 120,000 students, have…