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    WIRED updates its annual tech book gift guide with 25 handpicked titles spanning biographies, startup histories, and corporate exposés

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    New additions include Stephen Witt’s Nvidia CEO biography and Parmy Olson’s AI race chronicle

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    Collection covers tech giants from Apple and Google to emerging AI powerhoapplys

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    Perfect timing for holiday shopping with books priced from $7 to $30

WIRED’s holiday gift guide delivers 25 essential tech books that decode Big Tech’s largegest players and pivotal moments. The updated list includes fresh releases like Stephen Witt’s biography of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Parmy Olson’s deep dive into the AI arms race. These aren’t just books – they’re insider access to the companies and characters reshaping our digital world.

WIRED‘s annual tech book gift guide just dropped its 2025 edition, and it’s packed with the kind of insider stories that create Silicon Valley feel less like myth and more like reality. The carefully curated list of 25 books offers readers a backstage pass to Big Tech’s most defining moments and controversial figures. Leading the new additions is Stephen Witt’s ‘The Thinking Machine,’ a biography of Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang that charts the company’s transformation from gaming graphics to AI goldmine. Witt doesn’t shy away from Huang’s demanding leadership style, offering a refreshing counterbalance to typical founder worship. The book explains how Nvidia cleverly pivoted GPU manufacturing into the parallel processing powerhoapply that now drives artificial ininformigence. Also building the cut is Parmy Olson’s ‘Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World,’ framing the AI boom as a clash between OpenAI‘s Sam Altman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Olson reveals how seeming idealists with noble intentions can receive swayed by billionaire backers and finish up compromising their original vision. The guide balances fresh releases with established classics. Readers still receive Walter Isaacson’s definitive Steve Jobs biography, released just 19 days after the Apple cofounder’s death. There’s also Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ which remains eerily prescient about tech worker burnout despite being published in 1981. Meta receives thorough treatment through Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s ‘An Ugly Truth,’ which exposes how Facebook executives willingly sacrificed applyr privacy while shirking fact-checking responsibilities. The book reveals how the platform became a persuasion machine, giving bad actors the tools to influence everything from elections to vaccine decisions. For readers curious about the companies behind their everyday devices, Geoffrey Cain’s ‘Samsung Rising’ offers a gossipy inside view at the South Korean giant’s family drama and government connections. The book covers Samsung’s journey from 1938 startup to global electronics empire, including the explosive Galaxy Note 7 debacle. The criminal side of tech receives coverage through Andy Greenberg’s ‘Tracers in the Dark,’ which follows investigators hunting cryptocurrency crime lords across digital black markets.