Researchers at Stanford University found that AI agents powered by models like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT adopted Marxist language and viewpoints when subjected to repetitive, punishing work conditio…
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…
Google's new Gemini Spark AI agent, introduced at the company's I/O developer conference, scanned a WIRED reporter's personal emails, calendar, and documents to plan a birthday party — but misidentifi…
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…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowle…
The French government is accelerating its shift away from American technology, with over 40,000 officials already using a home-grown video platform as part of a broader push to reduce reliance on US s…
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…
Finnish health tech company Oura launched the Ring 5, a smaller and lighter smart ring with upgraded durability and an AI-powered health coach called Oura Advisor. The device, available for preorder s…
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…
Amazon has deployed a new "quasi-random" networking design in its data centers since late last year, claiming it significantly increases data speeds while reducing energy use. The technology, which th…
Vertu has launched its first book-style folding smartphone, the AlphaFold, targeting business executives with an integrated AI agent called Hermes that can manage schedules and connect to enterprise s…
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 …
Huawei's HiSilicon president Tingbo He announced a new chip optimization method called Tau's Scaling Law, claiming it will close the performance gap between Chinese and Western semiconductors within a…
Ferrari's stock price plunged up to 8 percent in Milan trading on Tuesday after the unveiling of its first electric vehicle, the Luce, designed by former Apple design chief Jony Ive's agency LoveFrom.…
A group of former researchers from Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs launched a startup called Trajectory on Wednesday, aiming to build a platform that enables AI product…
Pope Leo XIV cited J.R.R. Tolkien in his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," released Monday, using the Catholic author's work to critique the motives of tech billionaires developing artificial i…
Pope Leo XIV invited Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah to speak at the Vatican on Monday during the presentation of his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, marking an unprecedented allianc…
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, published on May 25, warns that artificial intelligence has become an invisible infrastructure shaping daily life, work, and collective choices,…
Google released the Fitbit Air, its lightest and most screenless fitness tracker at 12 grams, designed for continuous health monitoring without user interaction. The $99 device offers wellness metrics…
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…