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QUEEN OF CHIPS • Lisa Su has built AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages on, she’s at the center of it all.

SKELETON CREW

MOV’D BY THE SPIRIT • Whether your chip runs an old computer game or a new DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native tongue: assembly.

GEAR FOR GOOD

POLITICS GETS WIRED

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.

FAHRENHEIT 5G • INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MOST PROLIFIC ANTI-TECHNOLOGY ARSONIST IN AMERICA—AND THE CONSPIRACY-DRIVEN POLITICAL VIOLENCE OF OUR ERA.

KAT’S OUT OF THE BAG • At 26 years old, Kat Abughazaleh thinks she’s uniquely qualified for Congress. But running for office is a different sort of influencing.

OUT WITH THE OLD • Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the 22 very online creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era.

SPACE EMPEROR • ELON MUSK CONTROLS THOUSANDS OF INTERNET SATELLITES AND MORE THAN HALF THE WORLD’S ROCKET LAUNCHES. CAN ANYONE STOP HIM?

FEATURES

THE IMPROBABLE • Tech billionaire Mike Lynch made probability his life’s work, until his wildly unlikely death at sea. Now, many of his friends and associates—and survivors of the disaster—are speaking about what happened for the first time.

THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE • Surrogate pregnancy is all the rage in Silicon Valley and beyond. What happens when it goes horribly wrong?

THE DOGE DAYS ARE NOT OVER