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Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical...

But Shein and Temu didn’t stop marketing altogether. Instead, both companies chose to shift their ad budgets abroad to regions...

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some...

The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down the role of AI in the online gambling scene.

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing...

In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar...

Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide...

While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week's biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta's new superintelligence...

Some up-and-comers are pushing to make agents that can actually place wagers instead of just supplying tips, but the field...

Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean...

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21,...

Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer...

Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of behaving like monopolies and...

And that requires swallowing our pride here, right? Like we actually need to learn from China, even though US politicians...

Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,”...

Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But...

While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a...

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a...

We're going to talk a little bit about that later. Now I hate to do this, but you did work...

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk about the Trump administration’s deals with...

When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate...

While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to...

Michael Calore: OK.Lauren Goode: Yeah. But yeah, I'd be curious to see what you come up with.Michael Calore: OK.Lauren Goode:...

On September 9, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley's first live show of the podcast. Join us in...

The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company,...

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and...

The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already...

Kanye West, the hip-hop artist who goes by Ye, appears to have launched his own cryptocurrency, YZY, sparking a riot...

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s...

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if...

On a drab, overcast March day in Amsterdam in 2022, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took off his face mask and...

OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most...

Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like...

Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor...

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did...

Last month, WIRED reported that the investment banking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons...

Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway.On Wednesday, the Office of the Chief Information...

Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day...

Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of...

This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually...

Then there were the specifics. How would the policy distinguish between equipment that really posed a risk, and products companies...

The tech industry is reeling from President Trump’s surprising new deal with Nvidia. Earlier this week, Trump said he would...

Ever since artist James Sanborn unveiled Kryptos, an outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters, amateur and professional cryptanalysts have...

Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in...

“AI is expensive. Let's be honest about that,” Anand says.Growth vs. SafetyIn October 2024, the mother of a teen who...

The Trump family began to tease the launch of World Liberty Financial last August, ahead of the 2024 US presidential...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some...

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind...

Welcome back! Louise here. On Friday, President Trump fired one of the nation’s top economists after her agency published a...

When Dylan Field pops up on my Zoom screen, his face is a mixture of giddiness and fatigue. He’s back...

Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time...

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I...

Michael Calore: OK.Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is...

Carter termed this alleged discrimination campaign Operation Chokepoint 2.0, in reference to an Obama-era antifraud program under which US officials...

OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent),...

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data...

“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a...

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and...

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run...

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs...

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600...

The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep...

“Going public is a game-changer,” Eric Trump said. “It unlocks capital and institutional access that will fuel our mission to...

“To them, it doesn’t really matter who ultimately succeeds,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the self-driving-vehicle industry and is...

In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and...

Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was...

Louise Matsakis: I got to say, I think calling this a migration is maybe underselling it. This is an evacuation,...

Three days after the Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI action plan, the Chinese government put out its own AI...

The White House has laid out its plan to usher in a “new American Golden Age,” with cryptocurrency at its...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that...

A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack...

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence...

The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or...

Would you like to work nearly double the standard 40-hour week? It’s a question that many startups in the US...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that...

Tesla did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment on this article.For Nagley, it's too early to talk about Tesla...

For crypto firms, the vibe shift is a blessing. Although they have comparatively few problems accessing overseas bank accounts—often in...

At WIRED, we’re obsessed with how the world is transforming—and lately, there’s been a lot to obsess over. From the...

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing....

Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service...

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible...

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does...

But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools...

I’ve been told by multiple people that the set of a short drama doesn’t necessarily look that different from an...

On Wednesday, the Trump administration unveiled its new artificial intelligence action plan geared at keeping US efforts competitive with China....

A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or...

OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The fundraising...

Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario...

Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way...

Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms:...

“Competition will be fierce,” says Christian Catalini, founder at MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and cocreator of Diem, the now-defunct stablecoin project...

WIRED contacted Huawei to ask about its potential role in the subsidies. Huawei did not comment in time for publication.One...

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion...

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and...

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data...

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Wei worked on...

"What I imagine is going on here is that should this become a new chartered bank … the bank would...

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla,...

General Motors has just announced its latest and likely final piece in what now appears to be a three-pronged cell-chemistry...

Edesia had to lay off 10 percent of its staff in March as USAID was dismantled; Salem says that it...

Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results...

A large portion of the trial, legal experts say, will focus on whether Storm intended for Tornado Cash to be...

If you’re an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but....

I first learned about The Clause from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During an interview with him in May 2023, I...

What's going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were...

Linda Yaccarino, who has served as CEO of X since Elon Musk appointed her to the role in June 2023,...

Welcome to Uncanny Valley's very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and...

A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible...

Grok’s first reply has since been “deleted by the Post author,” but in subsequent posts the chatbot suggested that people...

Are the kids all right? They’re in Waymos, at least, now that the self-driving car company has begun to allow...

In the past few years, however, high-end airlines have begun reinvesting in first class, betting that a small but influential...

It might feel like a distant memory, but in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic radically transformed how people lived, and specifically...

They’ll be competing with Delta Air Lines, the largest US carrier by revenue, which provides some of the industry’s plushest...

Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025...

This story is part of The New Era of Work Travel, a collaboration between the editors of WIRED and Condé...

That’s changing. With the majority of companies implementing hybrid or full-time office mandates, business travel has resumed and, with that,...

“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an [autonomous vehicle] deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law...

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi...

US attorney general Pam Bondi has told at least 10 tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, that they...

Let’s be honest: A crowded airport lounge without a seat in sight is usually less appealing than an empty gate...

A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the...

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns...

As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. In a full-throated...

As Congress races to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” it’s also sprinting to placate the many haters of...

Microsoft has taken “a genuine step toward medical superintelligence,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence arm. The...

Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head...

The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at...

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED.Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui...

Before June 8, the skilled and respected ABC News television journalist Terry Moran was neither a household name nor political...

A small clause inside OpenAI’s contract with Microsoft, once considered a distant hypothetical, has now become a flashpoint in one...

Neither the Department of Justice nor the White House responded to requests for comment on this issue; the Library of...

Michael Calore: So publishing is definitely at the top of the list of industries that have been worried about AI...

The lavish wedding between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez is scheduled for June 26-28 in Venice,...

Advocates for the idea that AI training is transformative still see Chhabria’s ruling as a win. “Judge Chhabria ruled today,...

According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in...

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may...

Elon Musk’s lawyers claimed that he “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court filing related to his lawsuit...

Xiaomi released its first EV model, the SU7, in early 2024. By the end of the year, foreign diplomats, investors,...

Mining firms are also facing heightened competition for limited energy resources in the US, mostly from AI companies flush with...

Michael Calore: Yeah.Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in...

Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video...

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United...

Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel...

US Customs and Border Protection experienced a sharp rise in reports about potential tariff evasion after President Donald Trump abruptly...

However, after WIRED sent Shabanov details about how SuppCo conducted its tests, he conceded that it’s possible there may have...

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to...

In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan...

Last month, Suzanne Smith-Darley felt fantastic. She had just bought a used Chanel handbag from a Japanese seller on eBay...

Other filings suggested a recession could come even earlier. The community bank Hanmi Bank, under its holding company Hanmi Financial...

On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar...

A new machine learning approach that draws inspiration from the way the human brain seems to model and learn about...

Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the San Francisco–based AI image generation startup is a...

In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to...

The fact that AI can produce results that range from remarkably impressive to shockingly problematic may explain why developers seem...

US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing...

Will Knight: Maybe we also need a renewed open source movement so we're not just using agents that belong and...

“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform...

Zhang says his company makes money on each individual conversation after excluding certain overhead costs, but he declined to comment...

Waymo declined to answer questions from WIRED about how many cameras are inside its vehicles, exactly how long footage is...

In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers,...

Tan, who declined to say whether he personally supports the TikTok ban, believes the central issue is enforcement. “There is...

A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight...

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday,...

Wait though … Perplexity—like other AI search engines—has been criticized for hallucinating and getting things wrong.We welcome this criticism, because...

Palantir, facing mounting public scrutiny for its work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive stance toward journalists and...

It took only a few hours to wipe $152 billion of value from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100...

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Every few years, a Silicon Valley gig-economy...

The data show the US is also on the hook for about $14 billion for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service at...

Of all the egomaniacal lions who ruled Hollywood during the 20th century gatekeeper era, very few made a brilliant pivot...

Some of Trump’s high-profile backers from Silicon Valley stayed mostly quiet during the Trump-Musk flare-up on Thursday or tried to...

Now that Trump is in office, launching his own crypto ventures and asking for legislation establishing (light) digital asset regulations...

As Donald Trump and his family stretch into nearly every corner of the cryptocurrency sector, a dispute has broken out...

In the spring of 2018, thousands of Google employees pressured the company into dropping a major artificial intelligence contract with...

In fact, agents were still there, in his cousin’s home, listening in on the call, which she had made at...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just...

On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was...

At some US colleges, international students make up the majority of doctoral students in departments like computer science. At the...

Meta announced in January it would end some content moderation efforts, loosen its rules, and put more emphasis on supporting...

“My predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past,” Musk admitted to investors in 2023. “I’m the...

The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake...

It has long been said that visiting China from the West is akin to landing in a parallel universe. Pick...