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Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alex-karp-goes-to-war-palantir-big-inter…

Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?

An interview with Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman on the tepid initial reception to GPT-5's launch, scaling, reinforcement learning, AGI, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wron…

Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/

New Hearing Aid Company, Foretell, Brings in Steve Martin and Others as Fans
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears.

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.