Chinese labs previously involved in selling fentanyl precursors have shifted to manufacturing and selling peptides, a gray market now valued at over $100 million annually and growing, according to a n…
Meta embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally named "NameTag," into the Meta AI app used with Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to a WIRED code review. The code, added as early …
Apple is testing camera-equipped AirPods that would allow Siri to "see" the wearer's surroundings for navigation, shopping, and AI-driven tasks, according to Bloomberg. The earbuds, which are in late-…
Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition code for its smart glasses into the Meta AI app, which has been downloaded over 50 million times, according to a WIRED analysis. The feature, internally call…
Alpha School cofounders MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched a $65,000-a-year Manhattan campus to wealthy New York parents in fall 2025, despite WIRED reporting the facility is not actually a scho…
Alpha School’s New York City campus at 180 Maiden Lane charges $65,000 annual tuition for a program that runs from 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but the New York State Education Department rejected its appl…
President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back executive order on AI Monday night after senior aides persuaded him the administration could not indefinitely delay establishing a framework for the technol…
Apple and Android users can block spam calls and texts by using built-in phone settings to silence unknown callers and filter messages from unrecognized senders. The major carriers and phone manufactu…
The Trump administration is internally divided over whether to revive an executive order on AI regulation that President Donald Trump canceled hours before a planned signing ceremony on May 21. White …
Hundreds of contract workers employed by Covalen, a Dublin-based firm that provides content moderation and AI data labeling for Meta, staged a protest Friday outside Meta’s European headquarters in Du…
Steve Rosenbaum, author of the new book *The Future of Truth*, which examines how artificial intelligence distorts reality, admitted to using AI tools during the writing process after The New York Tim…
LinkerBot, a Chinese startup founded in 2023, has shipped 10,000 dexterous robotic hands in the past year, capturing 80 percent of global demand. The company, which sells hands capable of playing pian…
Software developers returning from maternity leave are finding their jobs transformed by AI coding tools that became standard during their absence, leaving new mothers struggling to catch up with coll…
The Illinois House of Representatives passed SB 315 on Wednesday, requiring frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to undergo third-party safety audits. The bill, which Governor …
The Department of Homeland Security, FBI and other agencies are warning about rising anti-technology extremism as concerns over AI-driven job displacement and opposition to data center construction in…
The FBI and local intelligence hubs are now classifying criticism of artificial intelligence as a potential indicator of "anti-tech violent extremism," according to over 1,000 pages of unpublished gov…
AI debt collection bots are now handling millions of calls, emails, and texts as U.S. debt delinquency reaches record highs, with the industry projected to be worth nearly $16 billion within a decade.…
A team of top academic and think tank researchers surveyed dozens of economists and AI experts to forecast AI’s effects on the economy through 2030. Most experts predicted that higher-ranking occupati…
Nearly half of Americans now use AI to find information and generate ideas, but a professional fact-checker at WIRED reports the technology is wrong more often than people realize. The fact-checker fo…
Major AI labs including Google DeepMind and Anthropic have hired teams of in-house philosophers to address ethical questions around artificial intelligence, with at least 14 philosophers now employed …