Anthropic is pushing US states to adopt tougher AI regulations, arguing that existing transparency-focused safety laws from 2025 are no longer sufficient for the most powerful AI systems. Cesar Fernan…
Meta faced swift backlash after rolling out a default-on AI feature that let users of its AI app tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likenesses, prompting the company to roll…
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…
Researchers at Meta, Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, and France's École Normale Supérieure developed the EgoBabyVLM Challenge, a test that reveals cutting-edge vision language models fai…
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives including Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight model, Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model trained on audio, video…
Hemispheric, a startup co-founded by Apple FaceID co-inventor Gidi Littwin, has raised $52 million to build a frontier AI model that decodes brain electrical activity to diagnose cognitive disorders w…
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC costs $1,800, making it the most expensive mainstream handheld on the market. The price is driven by Intel's Arc G3 Extreme chip, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and an …
Google's new Home Speaker, launched in June 2026, is the only smart speaker worth buying from the company, replacing both the Nest Audio and Nest Mini. The speaker features a 58-mm full-range driver, …
A customer's months-long effort to recover a missing $2,000 ebike delivery descended into chatbot hell, illustrating a growing corporate trend of using AI to replace human customer service agents. A G…
Seven current and one former OpenAI employee have donated more than $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC pushing for stricter AI regulations, as a counterweight to Leading the Future, a pro-AI…
A new book, *Inventing ELIZA*, recovers the original source code of the ELIZA chatbot from the MIT Archives, revealing multiple versions and scripts beyond the popular 'DOCTOR' persona. The book exami…
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to inform policy decisions, but HUD is denying Freedom o…
Apple has released the public beta of iOS 27, featuring the long-promised Siri AI overhaul that integrates a chatbot-style app and deeper system-wide voice controls. The new Siri, showcased at WWDC in…
Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark used a quantum computer built by ORCA Computing to improve a generative AI model for predicting proteins, generating novel peptides that bind to speci…
Nebula Security used its AI-driven bug-hunting tool VEGA to discover GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allows any logged-in user to gain r…
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company amid a reorganization that integrates safety and research teams. The departure follows the launch of GPT-5.6, which showed co…
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…
Artist Refik Anadol opened Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, in Los Angeles on June 20, featuring an immersive exhibit called Machine Dreams: Rainforest that uses AI trained on natural sc…
The UN's AI for Good Summit in Geneva showcased robot dogs, Teslas, and rescue helicopters while grappling with tensions between idealistic goals and concerns over corporate power and inequality. Acti…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role to become a part-time adviser after taking medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo joined OpenAI in…