Dyson has released three new cordless vacuums: the V16 Piston Animal ($980), V10 Konical ($500), and V8 Cyclone ($400), along with a Submarine variant of the V16. The V16 Piston Animal features 315 ai…
The FCC is moving to ban burner phones, a move that would impact privacy advocates and criminals alike. The proposal aims to require identification for prepaid mobile phone purchases, citing national …
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature, requiring the company to prevent the dissemination of erroneous claims. The court found that Goog…
Researchers at the University of Malaga have developed a system using AI agents to protect electric vehicle charging stations from cyberattacks. The agents monitor and analyze anomalies across the cha…
Anthropic is taking its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline after the US government issued an export control directive citing national security concerns. The order, received Friday, requires…
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…
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.…
SpaceX's upcoming IPO will make many people wealthy, but most retail investors will not see significant gains. The company set aside 30 percent of its shares for individual investors, yet demand has a…
Apple’s iPhone camera chief Jon McCormack said the company is adding generative AI features to its Photos app in iOS 27, including tools to expand image backgrounds and reframe perspectives, but stres…
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. …
OpenAI has appointed Thibault Sottiaux as head of core products, putting him in charge of transforming ChatGPT into a personalized "super app" that handles tasks across users' personal and professiona…
A massive inflatable effigy of Elon Musk was raised in Times Square today by the coalition Safe AI Now to protest Grok, the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool has been used to create se…
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…
SpaceX is set to go public Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion, a move that will make Elon Musk vastly wealthier and fund further AI data center expansion. Communities near xAI’s exist…
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…
Former members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have launched a venture capital-backed startup called Special, with funding from Marc Andreessen's a16z and other former DOGE a…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touted agentic AI at the company's Build conference this week, but the event was overshadowed by declining stock performance, weak adoption of its Copilot workplace AI tool…
Nearly 90 venture capital firms and money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a WIRED analysis of PitchBook data, revealing an unusual overlap between the rival AI labs. …