At .debug 2026, RedAccess discovered 380,000 publicly accessible vibe-coded applications, with 5,000 lacking security or authentication and 40% exposing sensitive data. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breac…
A new YPulse survey finds that 37% of U.S. teens aged 13-17 cringe at AI-generated content, and over half worry about misinformation and deepfakes. A Pew Research report shows that while many teens us…
Lingverse (formerly Ling AI) raised $29 million to build iKairos, a wearable AI device that can be worn as a pendant or mounted on a table, claiming to turn real-life moments into AI-generated images.…
The U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) has exhausted its token supply for the generative AI platform Ask Sage, just over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) announc…
World Monitor, an open-source real-time global intelligence dashboard developed by Elie Habib, has been released under AGPL-3.0 and is used by over 2 million people across 190+ countries. The platform…
The U.S. Army is burning through its AI tokens faster than expected, forcing a re-imposition of usage limits just weeks after the Department of Defense (DOD) touted widespread AI adoption. An internal…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined Playground Capital as a general partner to help semiconductor startups revive Moore's Law through advances in lithography, taking a board seat at xLight, a po…
Halliday launched the G2 smart glasses, priced at $599 with shipments starting September 2026, which omit cameras to avoid privacy concerns but record audio in meetings using AI voice commands. The gl…
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick and co-founder of WIRED, argues in a 2026 update of his 2008 essay "Better Than Free" that when AI makes perfect copies of creative work free and abundant, creators must s…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday demanding the removal of 13 AI face-swap apps that generate nonconsensual nude images, arguing the …
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday, demanding they remove 13 AI-powered face-swapping apps from their app stores that allow users to c…
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging the company stole confidential hardware secrets, while a group of OpenAI employees launched a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. New York Governor signed…
Meta executives have spent weeks arguing that its NameTag face-recognition feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses does not exist, despite WIRED finding code for the feature in the Meta AI app as early as J…
Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions surged 25% in fiscal 2025, driven by the expansion of data center infrastructure to support AI workloads. The company's Scope 2 emissions rose as it stopped purcha…
Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature called NameTag to its smart glasses, allowing wearers to identify people and access information via the Meta AI assistant, according to internal document…
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questio…
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrated into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model allows users to @-mention publi…
Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO's Crashing, told WIRED he keeps his iPhone screen time under an hour and 15 minutes daily by using grayscale mode, a screen-time widget, and avoiding social media. Ho…
WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barra…
Meta's new smart glasses collaboration with Kylie Jenner is promoted in an ad that fails to demonstrate any of the device's features, highlighting the ongoing challenge of making smart glasses sociall…