WIRED Roundup: Epstein Files Fallout, NVIDIA Earnings, Gemini 3 Release
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In today’s episode, Zoë is joined by WIRED’s Max Zeff to discuss five stories you need to know about this week — from the political fallout after the release of the Epstein files, to why two young mormon men created an app to help men stop "gooning". Then, we dive into Gemini 3's release and how companies like Google and OpenAI are honing in on AI profitability.
Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley. I'm Zoe Schiffer, Wired's Director of Business and Industry. |
| 0:11.7 | Today on the show, we're bringing you five stories that you need to know about this week, |
| 0:15.9 | including how companies like Google and Open AI are honing in on profitability as they develop their |
| 0:21.3 | AI consumer-facing products. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm joined today by Wired's senior writer Max Zeph. |
| 0:27.7 | Max, welcome to Uncanny Valley. |
| 0:29.7 | Thanks, Zoe. |
| 0:30.2 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:34.9 | Our first story is about how the Trump administration has completely lost the narrative around the Epstein files. |
| 0:44.1 | It feels like we could talk about this every week, but this week in particular, it's really important. |
| 0:50.0 | Our colleague David Gilbert wrote about the increasing pressure that President Trump was receiving from everyone, and we really do mean everyone, from Q&ON followers to a coalition of GOP lawmakers and Democratic legislators, to release the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:07.6 | On Wednesday this week, Trump finally signed the bill passed by Congress releasing roughly 20,000 documents on Epstein. On Wednesday this week, Trump finally signed the bill passed by Congress, releasing roughly 20,000 documents on Epstein. |
| 1:15.0 | But as David put it, the damage to the administration's brand already kind of feels like it's done. |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah, it's really just unbelievable how far the Trump administration has gone around the block on the Epstein case |
| 1:30.0 | compared to where it first started. I mean, in the past, this was a political campaign ship, |
| 1:34.9 | but now it's kind of an ongoing crisis that they really need to manage. I really liked David's |
| 1:41.3 | article just painting the full picture of where this started. And it truly is |
| 1:45.5 | wild to look back on, like looking back to 2017 when Q&N first started talking about Jeffrey |
| 1:51.9 | Epstein all the way up through 2019 when he was arrested. And now it's shocking that we're |
| 1:58.6 | about to be in 2026 and the story is still unfolding. |
| 2:01.9 | Have a hard time putting myself in the administration's shoes. |
| 2:05.5 | Like, how did they not realize that at a certain point, if you tease this, you're going to |
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