Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers Initial participants in the new Apple Manufacturing Academy tell WIRED that the tech giant’s surprising frankness and hands-on support are already benefiting their bottom lines. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-manufacturing-academy-michigan/

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-wong-leaves/

Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws The order creates an Justice Department task force to challenge state AI laws, and directs the Commerce Department to pull future broadband funding from states that pass “onerous” legislation. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-signs-executive-order-ai-state-laws/

Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova The two chip companies have signed a term sheet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement. https://www.wired.com/story/intel-signs-term-sheet-sambanova-ai/

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-and-block-are-teaming-up-on-ai-agent-standards/

OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist From “cameo” to “io,” OpenAI keeps trying to call its new and upcoming releases by names that resemble existing trademarks. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-cameo-products-that-already-exist/

Can AI Look at Your Retina and Diagnose Alzheimer’s? Eric Topol Hopes So The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine. https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-eric-topol-super-agers/

Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees. https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-daniela-amodei-anthropic/

What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future. https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-what-happens-when-your-coworkers-are-ai-agents/

AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown Lisa Su leads Nvidia’s biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED’s Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, company said “Emphatically, from my perspective, no.” https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-lisa-su-amd/