BUSINESS INSIDER
Erin Griffith was working as a business reporter at Buyouts magazine when the Great Recession hit, laying bare the unscrupulousness of financial firms. Today, as a senior writer at WIRED reporting on the murky world of cryptocurrency (see her roundup of the sector’s darker side on page 23), she’s experiencing some déjà vu. “There’s a lot of fraud, junk companies, and shady characters that are operating with almost no regulatory oversight in the crypto industry now,” she says. For a break from that strange world, we sent Griffith to San Diego to meet Henry, the first AI-enhanced male sex robot. Check out her story on page 34. Contributing editor Garrett M. Graff literally wrote the book on special counsel Robert Mueller. The Threat Matrix, published in 2011, chronicles Mueller’s time leading…