Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻♀️
@Knibbs
senior writer at Wired 🦐 Story tips: [email protected] (or DM me for Signal/WhatsApp!) extremeknibbs on Insta/Threads and @knibbs.bsky.social
Going to pin my Signal user name here, and encourage anyone with a tip to reach out! (NO PR.) Right now, I’m mainly covering how AI and other emergent tech is changing the internet, media, and entertainment industries.

NEW: “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.” wired.com/story/presiden…
President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threats (@knibbs / Wired) wired.com/story/trumps-a… techmeme.com/250723/p25#a25…
All the stories are here. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
Name your favorite quote by a celebrity.
Name your favorite quote by a celebrity.
ok as someone without a penis maybe i just don't "get it" but... this seems like an unpleasantly long time to have a boner?
sorry to report, but I have a new boner record 3 hr 36 min the movie Titanic is 3 hr 14 min
I'm a reporter at WIRED, and I'm wondering if anyone out there initially hesitated to vaccinate their kid against measles but has changed their mind during the current outbreak. I'd love to speak with you for a possible story: [email protected] or emullin.06 on Signal.
“Stock is running critically low,” Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit @ACF_SouthSudan, tells @WIRED
NEW: The State Department has pledged millions to keep sending lifesaving malnutrition aid to starving children. But they're not actually ordering the food, and aid workers on the ground say stock is running out. wired.com/story/usaid-ru…
NEW: The State Department has pledged millions to keep sending lifesaving malnutrition aid to starving children. But they're not actually ordering the food, and aid workers on the ground say stock is running out. wired.com/story/usaid-ru…
The most menswear-centric crypto scandal yet?? wired.com/story/volodymy…
this is an AI-powered news report about a band that insists it's not AI even though it really seems like AI
First they said it was AI. Now the band says: “We’re real — and we never use AI.” @Velvet_Sundown Velvet Sundown’s identity mystery just took a turn 🎸 Neural Newscast is AI-assisted, human reviewed. For details, visit neuralnewscast.com/transparency #AIMusic #VelvetSundown #MusicMystery…
Every single one of the 11 Meta superintelligence hires is an immigrant who did their undergrad abroad. 7 China, 1 India, 1 Australia, 1 UK, 1 South Africa. 8 are PhD or PhD dropouts in the US. Immigration is key to US AI innovation.
Marsha killed it! reuters.com/legal/governme…
🚨 Big AI moratorium news— after initially introducing a 5-year version of the provision w Ted Cruz yesterday, Marsha Blackburn has walked back support for her own compromise. Her reversal comes after a day of hard lobbying against the bill from a wide array of orgs. STORY TK!
After criticism, Senator Marsha Blackburn backs off her own AI provision compromise, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (@knibbs / Wired) wired.com/story/ai-morat… techmeme.com/250630/p37#a25…
Marsha Blackburn tells @Knibbs that she's out on the 10-year AI ban, including her own compromise with Ted Cruz that knocked the state-level regulatory freeze down from 10 years to 5 @WIRED wired.com/story/ai-morat…