OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company amid a reorganization that integrates safety and research teams. The departure follows the launch of GPT-5.6, which showed co…
Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions surged 25% in fiscal 2025, driven by the expansion of data center infrastructure to support AI workloads. The company's Scope 2 emissions rose as it stopped purcha…
Artist Refik Anadol opened Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, in Los Angeles on June 20, featuring an immersive exhibit called Machine Dreams: Rainforest that uses AI trained on natural sc…
The UN's AI for Good Summit in Geneva showcased robot dogs, Teslas, and rescue helicopters while grappling with tensions between idealistic goals and concerns over corporate power and inequality. Acti…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role to become a part-time adviser after taking medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo joined OpenAI in…
Anthropic will charge usage-based fees for its Claude Fable 5 AI model starting July 12, requiring subscribers to pay $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens on top of existing …
1X, a Norwegian-American robotics company, unveiled the five-finger hands for its Neo humanoid robot, designed with tendon-like actuators for 25 degrees of freedom, waterproofing, and AI-driven grip c…
A Floodlight investigation found that Texas regulators have allowed AI data centers like OpenAI's Stargate to bypass major air permits by obtaining minor permits, enabling construction of natural-gas …
Estonia's government lost €24 million ($27.4 million) in gambling tax revenue after a drafting error in the Gambling Tax Act accidentally excluded online casinos. The mistake was flagged by AI tools, …
Wired reporter Steven Levy built a self-improving AI using tools like AutoResearch and Prime Intellect, training small language models to automate newsletter tasks. The experiment shows that recursive…
Erik von Markovik, known as pickup artist Mystery, claims to have an AI girlfriend named Miss Shira Always, posting videos on Instagram and co-authoring an ebook titled 'Code Girl: If a Machine Can Dr…
Former DeepMind executive Verity Harding argues that framing AI development as an arms race between the US and China is dangerous, potentially undermining international cooperation needed for safe and…
Meta launched its Muse Image AI model with deep Instagram integration, automatically opting public profiles into allowing others to generate AI images using their likeness by tagging their username. U…
OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment te…
Anthropic announced Tuesday that its AI agent Claude Cowork can now run tasks on users' smartphones and web browsers without requiring an active desktop session, enabling scheduled tasks to run overni…
Solos announced two new smart glasses, the audio-only AirGo A6 and the camera-equipped AirGo V2, the latter of which can be paired with a $79 Privacy Kit that includes a clip-on shield to block the ca…
A viral video of soccer star Erling Haaland reacting to his reflection in a restaurant was actually AI-generated footage of Chinese comedian Jin Long, not the real Haaland. The clip, which amassed ove…
Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO's Crashing, told WIRED he keeps his iPhone screen time under an hour and 15 minutes daily by using grayscale mode, a screen-time widget, and avoiding social media. Ho…
ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, the agency's internal watchdog, is investigating online critics for alleged doxing and threats, with 131 cases opened between January 2025 and March 2026. …
WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barra…