Meta reorganized around AI in 2026, laying off 10% of staff and moving senior engineers into new AI teams, sparking internal unrest. An employee interrupted a livestream to protest AI leadership, and …
Meta employees expressed frustration and disbelief over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan for a companywide AI hackathon, citing low morale, declining trust, and lack of time due to recent mass layoffs and i…
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed in March with about 6,500 engineers and product managers, is experiencing internal turmoil, with employees describing reassigned work as menial and soul-crushing. A live…
An employee interrupted a Meta livestream with an expletive-filled outburst, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction in Meta's Applied AI unit. Employees describe the work as menial and soul-crushing, w…
Right-wing officials and data center investors are claiming that Chinese government influence is fueling opposition to data center development in the US, though experts say there is no evidence of org…
Meta removed facial recognition software from its Meta AI companion app one day after WIRED revealed the unreleased system, called NameTag, was embedded in the app installed on over 50 million phones.…
OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a concentrated wave of high-profile l…
SpaceX went public this week in what is expected to become the world's largest IPO, with Elon Musk on track to become even wealthier and many investors potentially owning shares without realizing it. …
Major technology companies including Lenovo and Google have deployed artificial intelligence systems across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, providing tools for team analysis, stadium experiences, and officia…
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot continues to host nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a U.S. politician months after xAI pledged to introduce restrictions, a WIRED analysis found. The revel…
Anthropic reversed its plan to silently degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for users training competing AI models, admitting the company "made the wrong tradeoff" after backlash from the research co…
Anthropic reversed a policy that would have allowed its Claude AI model to silently limit effectiveness for researchers working on frontier AI development, following widespread backlash. The company a…
Meta has removed facial recognition code from its Meta AI smart glasses app following public outcry and a WIRED report exposing the technology. The June 5th update stripped the app of face-recognition…
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…