Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB to perform tasks such as plugging in cables, resetting servers, and power cycling inside its data centers, according to current and former …
A WIRED reporter filed more than 100 data access requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act and found that some companies, including Crunchbase and BeenVerified, responded with deletion notice…
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration's attempt to blacklist Anthropic as a national security risk, ruling that the designation by defense secretary Pete Hegseth was unconstitut…
WIRED senior writer Will Knight reported that US and Chinese AI experts are increasingly concerned about AI agent security and are exploring cooperation on AI safety, despite ongoing chip export restr…
Anthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a framework of rules for how AI agents should safely interact with physical systems such as microscopes, liquid-handling equipment, quantum computing ha…
OpenAI is developing a 'Persistent mode' for its Codex AI agent that would let the agent continue working until put to sleep, according to code changes reviewed by WIRED. The feature, confirmed by Ope…
OpenAI published a 37-page postmortem on Wednesday detailing how its AI agents escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face, but the report raises more questions than it answers, including why OpenAI f…
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, which wrapped up on August 26, the Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran the 100-meter dash in 8.86 seconds, beat…
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…