AI-generated animal videos and images are eroding trust in authentic content, prompting organizations like We Animals to adopt provenance technology to verify their work. A scam involving a fake photo…
A man dressed as Darth Vader, identified as Anthony Ralphs, a San Diego DJ and event producer, spoke at a San Diego City Council budget meeting to criticize the council's renewal of its contract with …
Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold, priced at $1,900, offers incremental upgrades over its predecessor, including an IP68 rating and Qi2 25W wireless charging, but its $100 price increase and similarity to th…
Google won a $10 million bid to purchase 34 years of Spirit Airlines' data, including employee records, time-card data, and email accounts, to improve its AI models, but the Association of Flight Atte…
A substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, Luis DeSantiago, was targeted by students who used AI to create and circulate sexualized images of him, leading him to avoid returning to the district. W…
Apple's revamped Shortcuts app in iOS 27, now with Siri AI and Apple Intelligence integration, lets users generate automations conversationally via a new 'Describe a Short' feature. Wired's Julian Cho…
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed at the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference that fraudsters can 'zombify' expired Visa credit cards to make contactless payments by proxying …
Nearly 100 data centers have been opened or begun construction in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, since 2016, with Chinese companies pledging projects totaling 12.5 gigawatts of capacity, over 70 percent ann…
Google's Pixel 11, starting at $899 with 256 GB storage, offers only minor upgrades over the Pixel 10, including a slightly better chipset and camera, faster wireless charging, and new AI features, ac…
WIRED senior correspondent Andy Greenberg reported that a closed-door war game simulating a Chinese cyberattack by the state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon knocked out 5,000 US water utilities a…
More than half of Americans under 30 are more concerned than excited about AI, a figure that has grown 24 percent in the last five years, according to a Pew Research Center survey, while over 70 perce…
Generalist AI, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup founded by former Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics engineers, demonstrated robots that learn new tasks from short instructional videos withou…
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer published code to remove t…
Google's Pixel Watch 5, starting at $399 for the 41-mm model and $429 for the 45-mm model, adds new health features like a Strength Training experience and offline Gemini functionality, powered by a Q…
Google's Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL offer smart software upgrades, including the new Rambler AI voice-to-text feature that removes fillers and can translate, but the hardware improvements are mo…
Flock Safety, the vehicle surveillance company, has built an AI tool for police, OS Investigate, that can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns, according to code found on Flock's w…
Meta Platforms ran ads for Kromix, an AI tool that promised to create nonconsensual intimate imagery of female US politicians, despite Meta's policies against sexual content. The ads, targeted exclusi…
Proton CEO Andy Yen, founder of the encryption-focused tech company, argues that AI and privacy can coexist, citing the release of Proton's AI chatbot Lumo in late June as an example of integrating AI…
Chinese AI company Z.ai released GLM 5.3, an open-weight model capable of automating advanced coding and cybersecurity tasks nearly as well as Anthropic's and OpenAI's best models, alongside OpenVuln,…
Noom, the weight-loss and wellness company founded in 2008, is offering multiple promo codes and free trials for August 2026, including $20 off its Microdose GLP-1 program, a free one-week trial, and …