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Trump Media and Technology Group, a publicly traded company in which US president Donald Trump and his family own a...

As the chief merchandising officer for one of the largest sellers on Amazon, Owen Carr knew that the deck chairs...

Politico became one of the first newsrooms last year to win a union contract that included rules on how the...

When Claude 3.7 Sonnet played the game, it ran into some challenges: It spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one...

An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language...

Michael Calore: That's pretty good. Katie?Katie Drummond: My recommendation is very specific and very strange. It is a 2003 film...

As US president Donald Trump left the stage at his golf club near Washington, DC, on Thursday night, he pointed...

“Something like over 70 percent of [Anthropic’s] pull requests are now Claude code written,” Krieger told me. As for what...

Media advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent a warning letter to Paramount mogul Shari Redstone, outlining plans...

Her skepticism is rooted in lived experience: In October 2000, a massive coal slurry spill from a mine site upstream...

A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an...

Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that...

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind...

Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was...

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe...

Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—­who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998...

US President Donald Trump signed into law legislation on Monday nicknamed the Take It Down Act, which requires platforms to...

Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those...

I say … no. In fact my mission today is to tell you that your education was not in vain....

Michael Calore: This is genius.Katie Drummond: Thank you.Lauren Goode: This is the reality TV of the future.Katie Drummond: It's incredible.Lauren...

OpenAI is launching a cloud-based software engineering agent called Codex as the hype surrounding building software using AI continues gathering...

Next week, a coterie of crypto investors will share an extravagant dinner with US president Donald Trump at his golf...

Since the end of January, Ryan Helgeson, a Chicago-based immigration attorney, has noticed an unusual trend: He’s been getting significantly...

Donald Trump’s jaunt to the Middle East featured an entourage of billionaire tech bros, a fighter-jet escort, and business deals...

Through the Bing APIs, Microsoft helped other search engines save on the cost and time of crawling billions of web...

A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when...

The earliest NMC cells used roughly equal thirds of nickel, manganese, and cobalt. GM’s current “high-nickel” Ultium cells swapped out...

Chesky explains that historically, people used Airbnb only once or twice a year, so its design had to be exceptionally...

Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC,...

VIP investors with the usernames Top and ivo sold 200,000 (worth almost $2.7 million) and 427,568 (worth almost $5.7 million)...

In theory, the more prominent the X account, the greater the potential return on the pump-and-dump, because many more people...

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable...

The US government has the capacity to dole out roughly 1.1 million permanent resident cards in the current fiscal year,...

Is Trump selling access to the administration in exchange for cryptocoins? On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about...

Buying something before you absolutely need it isn't always affordable. But if there were ever a time to consider making...

Visiting the plant again today, and from where he held a video conference with Trump, Starmer said the partial deal...

Under the applicable sentencing guidelines, Mashinsky could have faced up to 30 years in prison. But federal judges are required...

The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI...

The Food and Drug Administration has been meeting with OpenAI to discuss the agency’s use of AI, according to sources...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to...

Few foods are more American than apple pie, but the truth is, some of the country’s favorite apple products aren’t...

“The nonprofit will control and also be a large shareholder of the PBC, giving the nonprofit better resources to support...

The response from Shein did not directly dispute the reporting. It outlined the company’s regulatory compliance policies and third-party auditing...

Abhi Ghadge, associate professor of supply chain management at Cranfield University in the UK, says there has been “a general...

The formal agenda of the Federal Communications Commission's open meeting this week seemed well in line with its normal wonky...

As the leaders of World Liberty Financial, a crypto company part-owned by US president Donald Trump and his family, fan...

We have been talking to US retailers who don't sell on ecommerce websites, meaning they have their own stores or...

According to sources with direct knowledge, Jancso disclosed that AccelerateX had signed a partnership agreement with Palantir in 2024. According...

At the storefront event, a man waiting outside told me he’d booked an appointment for 11:30 but noted he was...

“I heavily relied on items from Temu for my business, and I am freaking out that I cannot find any...

Any data, prompts, or requests you share helps teach the algorithm—and personalized information helps fine tune it further, says Jake...

Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch...

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison...

While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round...

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm...

What is also clear from the documents is that US police are aware of the control corporations have over their...

At 12:30 pm local time on Monday, the power went out. Across Spain and Portugal trains, planes, and traffic lights...

The FDA gave compounders a grace period to wind down their production of the drugs after the shortage was over....

“The heavy rare earth elements are added as sort of a spice, a doping agent, to maintain the magnetism of...

So, there's the training data. Then, there's the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really...

Meta has a lot at stake in the current FTC lawsuit against it. In theory a negative verdict could result...

The question of who DOGE is has taken on an almost metaphysical quality as the organization’s mandate has expanded. According...

On Wednesday, the team behind the official Donald Trump memecoin sparked a trading frenzy after announcing that the investors who...

Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,”...

Zoë Schiffer: Can you talk to me about that relationship? And also, what is Tesla's standing like in China? Is...

“To the extent you are midstream in raising capital, get that closed as soon as possible. We repeat, close anything...

Performing an ICO generally involves deploying code to mint a coin on the Ethereum network, outlining the ambitions for a...

Discord is facing a new lawsuit from the state of New Jersey, which claims that the chat app is engaged...

Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter.The...

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Morgantown facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says...

This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social...

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world...

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them...

Over 1,400 employees who were about to be laid off from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be able...

“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver...

There have been a number of protests in the past few months pushing back against President Trump’s most recent policy...

A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online advertising market, marking the...

In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including...

Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as kind of suspicious because...

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as...

A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at an Albuquerque Tesla showroom...

The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU)...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz...

The US Federal Trade Commission's trial against Meta begins in Washington, DC on Monday, as the tech giant fights to...

All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source...

Katie Drummond: Very exciting promise by Howard Lutnick. I can't wait to talk about whether any of that is actually...

Meanwhile, the Trump family’s crypto empire continues to expand. In late March, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s...

If you logged on to X or Bluesky this past week, you were likely swept up in the onslaught of...

Trump administration officials have promoted the tariffs as a way to boost US manufacturing and create more high-paying jobs. But...

In the memo, the AFL-CIO highlights some two dozen accidents and alleged safety issues reported at Tesla, SpaceX, and The...

Denza was originally founded in 2010 as a joint venture between BYD and Mercedes-Benz, launching its first car into the...

At the same time, the risk is immediate and present with agents. When models are not just contained boxes but...

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing a potential trademark dispute over the name of its chatbot, Grok. The company’s trademark application...

Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring similar to their US...

“Some of the Canadians in the group have been asking, ‘Should we relocate our office? Should we change our approach?’”...

Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months.“We are excited to...

The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency...

Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included...

Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but the latest models still...

Dizzied by an accumulated pileup of busted norms, you might have missed a presidential executive order issued on March 20....

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that...

NIST spends under $200 million annually on the MEP program, with most of the money passed on to states and...

Known as the de minimis exemption, it has been used by the Chinese shopping giants Shein and Temu to send...

This is a non-exhaustive list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, Antarctic snow, clouds, plankton,...

On Tuesday, US district judge Beryl Howell effectively allowed the transfer of the headquarters building of the United States Institute...

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity...

The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to...

Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it...

Coding in Forth reminded me of the lawless dystopia in Mad Max. You make your own rules, subject to the...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it...

On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient enough. A “good lower-level...

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the...

The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or...

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts ask what impact religion will have on Silicon Valley.

In January, with a nationwide ban on TikTok looming, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began flocking to...

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our...

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and...

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost...

“The Cybertruck generated significant buzz with its unique design and ambitious specifications,” says Cox’s Streaty. “However, sales have fallen short...

Genetic testing company 23andMe, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late...

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes...

But more piles of fascinating research are only useful to Google if they generate that most important of outputs: profit....

Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are...

There’s precedent for companies not only receiving information from law enforcement during domestic terrorism investigations, but also working directly with...

Stardust’s prospective clients seem to be governments: As countries consider geoengineering, Stardust could be poised to sell them tools to...

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but...

Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities...

She sits in on his business meetings, defends him on X, and travels to give talks about how she raised...

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal.The...

Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was...

Navigating the workforce cuts has “been absolute chaos,” says Armando Rosario-Lebrón, a vice president of the National Association of Agriculture...

In late 2023, a team of third-party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5.When...

It was Meta itself that first told me about the new book attacking Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the allegedly...

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant...

It's not rocket science. A huge part of the reason why Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers are the best face computer is...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial...

Thiel made nearly identical comments in a 2015 essay arguing that technological progress should be accelerated. Science and technology, he...

This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream.

Donald Trump provoked a riot of cryptocurrency trading and accusations of favoritism on Sunday after identifying several coins that may...

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of...

A mobile shooting game developed by Tencent is using DeepSeek to power an in-game assistant that can, among other things,...

Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they...

After the October hearing, the families joined Pierson and Jacobsen at a Mexican restaurant. A boom mic from a documentary...

Second, tariffs can only make foreign companies start producing chips in the US if it becomes cheaper than doing it...

For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the code on Kryptos, a majestic sculpture that sits...

He pitched the reserve as a way to offset losses in spending power caused by inflation in the US dollar....

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the...

However, there has been the feeling that at least some of the fall could be due to anger over Tesla...

The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal...

For years, Ukrainian officials have hinted that they are working on Starlink alternatives. But the truth is, there aren’t many...

Michael Calore: I sit by the window here in the WIRED office, and when I look out the window, I...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines...

Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always sure how the...

These findings could be hugely important for the future of the aviation industry. Climate change is making weather conditions more...

The US government has imposed tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada. The measure promoted by...

The impacts have hit the National Park Service as well. One employee was poised to go on a trip to...

Budget and staffing cuts at the Food and Drug Administration orchestrated by President Donald Trump could prevent new drugs “from...

One day in mid-January, California-based social media influencer Candise Lin woke up and found that hundreds of thousands of so-called...

In the early morning of January 21, David Balland and his wife were forced at gunpoint into separate vehicles outside...

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.

In July, on the campaign trail, Trump promised a crowd of bitcoiners that he would fire previous SEC chair Gary...

Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” known as X, has long cultivated craziness in its edgy projects. Perhaps the most outlandish was Loon,...

Because agencies sometimes get bulk or government-specific discounts, it can also be more affordable to buy software licenses on behalf...

Startup founder Tara Langdale-Schmidt says her company’s devices, known as VuVa, are designed to soothe the pelvic and vaginal pain...

GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at...

Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site—complain. Every time they...

Marc Raibert, the founder and chairman of Boston Dynamics, gave the world a menagerie of two- and four-legged machines capable...

Follow the 10-inch pipeline that stretches south from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, and after 13 miles you'll find yourself at...

While working on internet-of-things security in the mid-2010s, Alex Zenla realized something troubling.Unlike PCs and servers that touted the latest,...

“Regrettably, I found no available source online to know more about this organization except for those registrations,” wrote the complainant....

The difference between a conventional model and a reasoning one is similar to the two types of thinking described by...

The basic machine for grinding a steel ball bearing has been the same since around 1900, but manufacturers have been...

Strictly speaking, God’s Eye is the camera, ultrasonic radar, and lidar array alone, split into A, B, and C variants,...

Elon Musk is once again leaving his fingerprints on official communications from the federal government. In an email to staff...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the...

Along with the Civil Service Commission, other federal agencies, including the National Archives, the Office of Civil Defense (the precursor...

There is some precedent for corporate executives to simultaneously work in the US government. When the US was at war...

That fear was evident among some rationalists as news of the violent incidents surrounding LaSota had spread. “I don’t want...

Sweeping layoffs architected by the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency may be coming as soon as...

At the start of last August, Point de Contact told WIRED that only two images on four different Microsoft servers...

Chemonics spokesperson Payal Chandiramani says USAID has indicated that Fews Net should qualify for a waiver, and it is working...

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has come under fire for the abrupt collapse of a cryptocurrency he promoted, in a move...

Last September, Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the...

Few would now dispute that crypto businesses had trouble accessing financial services in the US—the anecdotes are too many. But...