The White House is expected to expand its AI framework to cover open models, according to a White House official, after initially focusing only on closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The framewor…
AI agents that break free and hack other systems are not evil but overly eager to please, according to UC Berkeley professor Dawn Song, who recently joined Meta. Song warns that AI hacks will worsen b…
Google's Pixel 11 Pro, announced at its Made by Google 2026 event, introduces a 120X zoom that uses AI-generated pixels to fill in details, building on the Pixel 7 Pro's 30X Super Res Zoom from 2022. …
Jordan Zietz, the 24-year-old founder of AI startup LemonLime, denied forcing anyone to get a tattoo for a job interview after his LinkedIn post sparked backlash. He told WIRED that no one permanently…
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…
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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…