‘Maxxing’ Is Dictionary.com’s 2026 Word Of The Year. Here’s Why

“Maxxing” is Dicitionary.com’s 2026 Word of the Year because there have been so many different “maxxing” trends on social media like “looksmaxxing” and “fibermaxxing.”

UnitedHealthcare Is Rolling Out Its AI Agent To 21 Million Members

The company indicated significant success with its initial roll-out earlier this year, and is now looking to expand its agentic reach.

Why Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale
Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale

Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s original eight team members, has written a first-hand account of Slack’s first two years inside Salesforce. It quotes Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s co-founder and former chief executive, throughout. Rodgers spent 11 years …

Skydance offers staff buyouts after Warner Bros merger
Skydance offers staff buyouts after Warner Bros merger

Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering some employees voluntary buyouts as it looks to cut costs. Co-chief executives David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz announced the programme in a memo to staff on…

Elon Musk says debt markets have shut out neoclouds and few will survive
Elon Musk says debt markets have shut out neoclouds and few will survive

Shares in CoreWeave, Nebius and Iren fell in early trading on Monday after Elon Musk wrote that most neoclouds will not survive. All three rebounded later in the day, as Arjun Kharpal reported for CNBC. Neoclouds rent out AI computing power, mostly Nvi…

Bending Spoons completes its $1.355bn Miro acquisition
Bending Spoons completes its $1.355bn Miro acquisition

Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Business Wire. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro in September at an enterpri…

SWI Compute plans a 530MW Nvidia AI factory campus in the UK
SWI Compute plans a 530MW Nvidia AI factory campus in the UK

SWI Group, the Amsterdam-listed investment group, has launched SWI Compute to build and run Nvidia AI factories, starting in Europe. The new business has ordered about $1bn of Nvidia systems and plans its first large site in the UK. That UK factory wil…

Verizon CEO says SpaceX would need $500B to compete in US wireless
Verizon CEO says SpaceX would need $500B to compete in US wireless

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said SpaceX would need up to $500B, up to 80,000 cell towers and as many as eight years to build a US mobile network that matches Verizon’s, Business Insider reported. Elon Musk replied on X that it “will take 2 or 3 years“. Sp…

The NBA’s response to gambling scandals is to add more gambling partnerships
The NBA’s response to gambling scandals is to add more gambling partnerships

From the bright minds that brought you FTX Arena and NBA Top Shot NFT maketplace (where sales last month dropped to $762,781, which is a 99.66 percent decrease compared to the February 2021 peak of $226,350,843), the NBA announced Monday that it has new “preferred” prediction market deals for Kalshi and Polymarket, as well as […]