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

Lauren Goode: Sam said that? Zoë Schiffer: To his employees. Lauren Goode: Interesting. Michael Calore: He also came out on…

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

On the final day of my visit to Japan, I’m alone and floating in some skyscraper’s rooftop hot springs, praying…

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…

Sam Altman is leaving no room for doubt about his views on an Elon Musk-led bid to take control of…

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences…

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. In 2020, the media and technology…

Leah Feiger: And so many have been. Absolutely. Katie Drummond: So many have been, so my answer has been, this…

At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the actions of his so-called Department of…

“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products, but even I can’t stick up…

When news first broke about Elon Musk’s tech takeover of the United States government, a number of people who had…

Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google…

Lauren Goode: I also think if there is a bright spot, it’s probably going to be some of the apps…

A new lawsuit filed by more than 100 federal workers today in the US Southern District Court of New York…

But do you expect to find it difficult to bring about a new era at Binance when the founder—who is…

Days after the rule went into effect in January, the bureau was sued by NetChoice and TechNet, two trade groups…

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The…

Gambaryan says he wanted to hear Ogunjobi explain himself. On the phone, Gambaryan remembers, the EFCC official began crying, apologizing…

Unlike the Fleshlight, which is flamboyantly anatomical in design—some versions are even molded to resemble the crotches of individual porn…

Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I’m incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you.…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), taking a team…

Lorianna Calhoun, a Shein shopper, tells WIRED that of the roughly 170 items that were once on her Shein wish…

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Many of us have witnessed unusual and even…

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, owns stocks valued between…

What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google,…

For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has…

“If you break it down, there are a lot of moving components in the backend that people are not necessarily…

Adhering to the new rules is also proving to be a major lift for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)…

LinkedIn is testing a new job-hunting tool that uses a custom large language model to comb through huge quantities of…

The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice, according…

The Chinese government announced Tuesday it is opening an investigation into Google in response to 10 percent tariffs imposed on…

USAID staff who still have access to their email accounts received a notice on Monday evening from Ken Jackson, the…

An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over…

Marc Andreessen [archival audio]: So, I decided to read my way out in both directions, both all the way out…

The crypto wallets that invested the largest sums in TRUMP largely purchased the coin on January 18, the day it…

“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for…

OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks…

Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation…

It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on…

Meta employees typically vote on which questions executives should address at companywide meetings. Ahead of such a gathering scheduled for…

Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided and plunged into the Potomac…

“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent…

Altogether, around 10 attempts to change the gulf’s name have been reverted over the past week on OpenStreetMap. Several contributors…

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government…

The true price of developing DeepSeek’s new models remains unknown, however, since one figure quoted in a single research paper…

The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a…

The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB) test, which, unlike the EU’s…

Panic over the US TikTok ban increased usage and downloads of a slew of alternative social media apps, including Texas-based…

Today, DeepSeek is one of the only leading AI firms in China that doesn’t rely on funding from tech giants…

It’s hard to quantify the Swiftie demographic’s impact on these bets, but preseason, WIRED reached out to several sportsbooks including…

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people…

The one exception to that is the UMG v. Anthropic case, because at least early on, earlier versions of Anthropic…

OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial intelligence to operate a web browser…

The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of…

This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation.

Addressing a single executive order from Donald Trump’s voluminous first-day edicts is like singling out one bullet in a burst…

It was an opportunity too good for Meta to ignore: On January 19, TikTok, one of its biggest social media…

Those allegations of murders-for-hire, in fact, dissuaded the first Trump administration from granting clemency to Ulbricht. The White House in…

As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English, is trying to capitalize on its…

In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, the…

For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned a major global social media platform,…

Less than 24 hours after going dark, TikTok says it has come back online after President-elect Donald Trump gave the…

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s…

Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI, recently left to join a new artificial intelligence research lab…

A crypto investor has brought a class action lawsuit against Pump.Fun, a platform for launching and investing in meme-inspired cryptocurrencies,…

Polestar makes the Polestar 3 in a South Carolina factory, and last year warned that any sales ban “shuts down…

There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying…

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after…

Gemini [archival audio]: Key body-weight exercises, squats, stand with feet shoulder-width apart, lower your hips as if sitting in a…

Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in…

NBC Sportz did not respond to requests for comment. Neither NBCSport.co.uk nor BBCSportss.co.uk has an email address or other contact…

With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in…

For a while in the mid-2000s, a refrigerator-sized box in Abu Dhabi was considered the greatest chess player in the…

A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with…

The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed to prevent the advanced chips and…

Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in…

Zoë Schiffer: It must have been a long walk. Lauren Goode: I mean, I heard a lot about jujitsu. 56…

This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition,…

The law says it will be “unlawful” for entities to “distribute, maintain or update” the app including its source code,…

The privacy experts who spoke with WIRED described Rumble, Quora, and WeChat as unusual suspects but declined to speculate on…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect your Robux from scammers and hackers.…

“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get-out-of-jail-free card, notwithstanding that internal Meta records show…

Meta caused a stir last week when it let slip that it intends to populate its platform with a significant…

“Meta has perennially been a home for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation,” claims Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company…

Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in…

Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting…

Facebook has already contributed to the demise of journalism and this will be the final nail in the coffin,” Nina…

To learn any programming language is to learn how to debug it. But a malformed command in Python usually returns…

For all the goofiness, memecoin fever has been embraced by some corners of the crypto industry. In search of outsize…

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year…

Experts believe the operation is based in China and relies on a drop-shipping scheme. “It’s likely just a reshipper selling…

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned…

A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up around trade, industry, and cars. Think…

At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For…

Love it or hate it, you have to admit Temu had a banger year. Launched in late 2022, the Chinese-owned…

“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,”…

Buttu, who regularly travels to the city of Ramallah in the West Bank from her home in Haifa, Israel, for…

In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of…

Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been…

If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may…

I asked Amko Leenart, director of design for Ford Europe, about why Ford used VW’s woeful controls in both the…

In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily supplied them when I asked, and…

OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to date—one that takes even more time…

Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. One hundred million…

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging…

Lauren Goode: I don’t remember that. Zoë Schiffer: I think she did. Michael Calore: I don’t know why everybody’s looking…

It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively…

Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset…

The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it is going to end the web…

“Mariner is our exploration, very much a research prototype at the moment, of how one reimagines the user interface with…

Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time. I actually…

Digital license plates, already legal to buy in a growing number of states and to drive with nationwide, offer a…

Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are hierarchical and…

“The Cybertruck’s weight, stiff structure, and sharp design have raised valid concerns,” she tells WIRED. “Any loophole allowing these vehicles…

People don’t know what they don’t have until you sell it to them, right? And I’m very convinced that when…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at most tasks—around 2027 or 2028. Elon…

A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner…

As I arrive, he’s laying out an impressive lunch spread of salads and carved ham and huge blocks of good…

In addition to the trove of books, the Institutional Data Initiative is also working with the Boston Public Library to…

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The…

“When we were talking with workers, they just wanted to get back to the cockroaches, how the studio owner charges…

In recent earnings calls, shareholders in some publicly traded meat companies have asked whether the Trump administration’s deportation plans—among other…

Alex Mashinsky, former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, has pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, which together carry…

So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a…

Transforming a car manufacturing plant entering its seventh decade into a futureproof facility, ready for AI-powered autonomous driving, comes with…

The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing industry’s sheen of glamor will continue…

“We do see variation across different vehicles and models,” continues Argue. There are other factors as well. “So far, we…

In July 2026, a new regime will take effect in California, where Biesk’s family lives, requiring residents to obtain a…

The appeals court ruled today that the PAFACA does not violate TikTok’s free speech rights. “The Government does not suppress…

The burgeoning field of social-emotional AI is tackling the very jobs that people used to think were reserved for human…

Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had well-developed strategies for generative AI by…

Right from the start, we had this Venn diagram: On one side is creativity, and on the other side is…

Lauren Goode: I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a senior writer at WIRED. Zoë Schiffer: I’m Zoe Schiffer, WIRED’s director of business…

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking…

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it…

Every time I visit the Apple Park campus, my mind flashes to a tour I took months before construction was…

Figma cofounder Dylan Field is seemingly a big Enron fan—or rather, of the crypto-fueled semi-parodic relaunch of the company that…

One of the many criticisms leveled at Jaguar in the firestorm ignited by its rebrand last month was that while…

Ahead of the official reveal at Miami Art Week, snaps of the brand’s Design Vision Concept have surfaced in all…

WIRED’s Big Interview has long been the definitive source for in-depth conversations with the executives, scientists, political leaders, and creators…

Engagement and profits on social platforms are built on fomenting dissatisfaction and disinformation—but there’s a better alternative.

There’s a growing trend of people and organizations rejecting the unsolicited imposition of AI in their lives. In December 2023,…

In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will deliver on the hype with a…

Next year will be Big Tech’s finale. Critique of Big Tech is now common sense, voiced by a motley spectrum…

The US government has been imposing similar export controls on China aimed at limiting its ability to mint advanced silicon…

You more than likely know Xiaomi, so-called Apple of China, as a maker of smartphones that offer a decent alternative…

AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The introduction of automated prose can sometimes change a website’s character, like…

In July, at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump pledged to fire Gensler if reelected, drawing perhaps the most…

LexisNexis spokesperson Paul Eckloff disputes that freezing was an overreach. The company deemed that step as necessary to honor the…

And on this metric, the Cybertruck might be wanting. “Cars with ongoing recalls well after launch suggest a much higher…

To give competitors a leg up, the government wants Google to share its search index and the data it collects…

James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden…

No question about it: Nadella’s Microsoft is a triumph. Finally, in the 2020s, Microsoft has centered on the most innovative…

“[BYD’s] disclosures show a serious lack of transparency on human rights diligence in its battery supply chains,” said Amnesty’s Callamard.…

US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate…

Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service…

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft…

Lauren Goode: It sounds like you’re a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the…

A large portion of Nvidia’s growth this quarter was driven by data center revenue, totaling $30.8 billion for the quarter,…

A third-generation San Franciscan, Gabe says he grew up playing with Nancy Pelosi’s kids and went to high school with…

At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed down on…

The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last year, citing security…

It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout for NATO is peering down at…

The more certain short-term impact is that US investors who are still interested in Chinese AI startups will have to…

Lauren Goode: Zoë, you had vegan pizza the other night. You said it was pretty good. Zoë Schiffer: I did.…

Substack does not have an official policy governing the use of AI. One of Substack’s cofounders, Hamish McKenzie, has described…

In 1845, somewhere between inventing a system for detonating explosives by electricity and the refillable fountain pen, Robert Thomson, a…

The debacle led to a hearing in the US Senate on consolidation in the ticketing industry. In May, the US…

People have never been better, here in the Year of Our Simulation 2024, at hating the very forces underlying that…

According to Salla, Big Tech rules should be left to the new administration entering the White House. “Big Tech should…

At sentencing, the judge was also permitted to take under consideration the murder-for-hire allegations, despite them never having been charged…

Minecraft remains remarkably popular a decade or so after it was first released, thanks to a unique mix of quirky…

After more than 1,200 days of silence, Li Ziqi, arguably the most successful internet influencer from China on YouTube, is…

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll…

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul…

Group chats on Towns can be configured in such a way that only people who fulfill certain criteria—who have specific…

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the…

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I…

The most raucous cheers of the night were prompted by Trump’s promise to fire Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities…

Lauren Goode: Oh, really? Zoë Schiffer: Yes. Lauren Goode: I did not have that experience on Caltrain. Zoë Schiffer: Well,…

On the campaign trail, Trump went out of his way to court their favor. In July, speaking to thousands of…

Perplexity’s Election Information Hub might also blur the line between verified and free-wheeling AI-generated information. While some results come directly…

Over the past year, Cisco publicly looked like one of the few tech companies that had avoided internal backlash over…

TikTok is one of the tech companies that could be most impacted by the outcome of the US elections. But…

On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings…

Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump…

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul…

Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of global innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and…

The messages, potentially misleading US citizens or stoking hate towards various groups, will have been seen by many times more…

Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only…

I appreciate that. We own this mistake. So your name is Nazir Ali, but when you say “we”— We are…

Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman—celebrated the IPO of…