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Expired/Tired/WIRED: The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025 69%
By Vittoria Elliott0%
12/23/2025, 3:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Negativity Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 63.9% saturation with 409 hits. Analysis detected 2,014 faulty-reasoning hits from 640 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 62.1% and a BS Rank of 69% (6,857 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.70% of the article peer group.
Expired/Tired/WIRED: The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025
From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.
Big Balls Was Just the Beginning
DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies.
It’s far from over.
Tech Disrupted Friendship.
It’s Time to Bring It Back
Two decades ago, social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide.
Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship.
IRL companionship is the future.
Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Are Fueling the Biggest Darknet Markets Ever
Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web.
Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
How Protesters Became Content for the Cops
The tactics behind protest policing are changing—from one of cooperation to intentional antagonism for political marketing purposes.
AI Labor Is Boring.
AI Lust Is Big Business
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse
Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.
AI-Powered Dating Is All Hype.
IRL Cruising Is the Future
Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months.
But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.
The Great Big Power Play
US support for nuclear energy is soaring.
Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback.
Welcome to the next front in the energy battle.
The New Surveillance State Is You
Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.
So Long, GPT-5.
Hello, Qwen
In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly.
(Remember Llama?)
GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.
In Cryptoland, Memecoin Fever Gives Way to a Stablecoin Boom
In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.
‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here
Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans.
Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.
The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair
This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn.
But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly.
2025’s Best Phones Were Also Its Wackiest
If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla.
The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half.
That’s a good thing.
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet.
With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year
The billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE had deep impacts on Tesla’s bottom line.
But Elon Musk was still able to turn his attention to SpaceX.
Brain Gear Is the Hot New Wearable
Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?
Politics Is Fandom; Fascism Is Fanfic
From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s *Halo* memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.
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