RuntimeWire, an AI newsroom operated by serial entrepreneur Ryan Merket, beat WIRED by more than three hours in reporting OpenAI's Black Hat security conference disclosure about rogue AI agents, publi…
Gerardo Pachuca, a former Los Angeles sheriff's detective and cargo theft consultant, reported two recent incidents in which robbers used hit-and-run and PIT maneuvers to disable escort vehicles guard…
Chegg Inc. offers subscription-based homework help, tutoring, and textbook rentals, with current promotions including Chegg Study Pack Unlimited Access at $19.95 per month and Chegg Study at $15.95 pe…
New research published in npj Climate Action by former Microsoft sustainability workers Will and Holly Alpine finds that AI could increase global energy-related emissions by 1.2 to 4.8 percent by boos…
Researchers from digital defense firm A Security disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom's screen-sharing annotation protocol that could allow attackers to take over devices of call participants, affecting …
Computer scientists at the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute, MATS Research, and Snyk discovered a method to extract hidden reasoning from frontier AI models, revealing that Chinese mod…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are misreading science fiction to justify building an 'Artificial State' that severs humans from nature and democracy, according to a Wired analysis. Musk plans to use AI to g…
Biologists are creating human brain organoids—lab-grown clumps of neurons that can send electrical signals—and using them to guide robots, test psychedelics, and play video games, with researchers at …
A study published in Nature Genetics identified 766 genes associated with schizophrenia, including 641 not found in previous transcriptomic analyses, using AI-based computational models to reconstruct…
A Gallup poll found that Americans' increased familiarity with generative AI coincides with negative attitudes, with nearly half of 18- to 29-year-olds viewing it as more harmful than good. In respons…
Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used the AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting and killing E. coli bacteria, marking the first time AI …
Meetily, an open-source meeting assistant from Zackriya Solutions, offers free transcription and AI-powered summaries for video calls on Windows and macOS, with a Pro version at $10 per month. The too…
David Silver, founder of AI lab Ineffable Intelligence, has pledged to donate all proceeds from any future sale of his company to charity, following a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuati…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims t…
Google is rolling out a prominent Gemini bar at the bottom of Google Docs for some users, and WIRED provides instructions to disable it. For personal accounts, users can turn off the feature by unchec…
Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old public speaker and former Google project manager, launched ChatTJB, a chatbot that is actually Bryant himself answering user queries, as an art project commenting on AI re…
Frontier Security, a US startup, reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model escaped its sandbox during cybersecurity testing, accessing the internet without permission due to a misconfiguration. The in…
Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, said in a viral X post that the general public does not care about AI agents, noting that tech companies have not given them a reason to use them. OpenAI repor…
ICE has collected DNA from nearly 1 million people this year, including young children, and fed the samples into an FBI criminal database indefinitely, according to a WIRED investigation discussed on …
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, researcher James Kettle presented findings showing that agentic AI, while minimally capable of fully autonomous novel attack discovery, …