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Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry. Read More Culture LatestThe Big Story, Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Love, Death & Robots 

RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, Baby Boomers 

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, Sniff Test 

Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.” Read More Culture LatestThe Big Story, Culture, Culture / TV, The Big Interview 

The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Music, Complaints Dept. 

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad. Read More Culture LatestThe Big Story, Culture / TV, Lights, Camera, Annotation 

In an interview with WIRED ahead of her new concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), Billie Eilish talked about whether or not future artists will be able to leverage SoundCloud the way she did. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Music, Culture / Digital Culture 

When Stick Figure’s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Music, Hit Record 

Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, Twin Peaks