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The new joint operation uses laser-based technology capable of detecting, tracking, and disabling commercial drones linked to human and drug trafficking. www.wired.com/story/us-and-mexico-announce...
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs. www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-ai-researc...
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development. www.wired.com/story/openai-wants-to-know-i...
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election. www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast...
While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot. www.wired.com/story/august-2026-is-hottest...
In Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel “Exit Party,” becoming a “ghost” means running afoul of the state. In this excerpt, a secret agent discovers it doesn’t take much. www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-emily-st-...
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview. www.wired.com/story/clearview-ai-is-testin...
Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations. www.wired.com/story/satellite-falling-out-...
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe. www.wired.com/story/anthropic-researcher-q...
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction. www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-orders-m...
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do. www.wired.com/story/apple-doesnt-want-you-...
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure. www.wired.com/story/i-used-ai-to-hack-my-h...
A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos. www.wired.com/story/you-can-now-destroy-fl...
The cable news network’s president, Rebecca Kutler, wants to leverage its massive online and TV audience to create a fan community. First up: letting you chat with Rachel Maddow. www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podc...
Cofertility lets women freeze their eggs for free—as long as they give half of them back to the company. What happens next is anyone’s guess. www.wired.com/story/egg-freezing-startup-c...
Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions. www.wired.com/story/cockroach-milk-mosquit...
Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket. www.wired.com/story/meta-releases-muse-a-p...
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety. www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-m...
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate. www.wired.com/story/meta-failed-to-catch-h...
In the early 20th century, public outcry following Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to stricter food safety protocols. NASA took them a step further. www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-alex-davi...
Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a “dark dimension” may be responsible. www.wired.com/story/dark-energy-matter-may...
The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects. www.wired.com/story/astronomers-complete-l...
The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. www.wired.com/story/plastics-companies-wri...
The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control. www.wired.com/story/cyborg-cockroaches-dis...
Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence. www.wired.com/story/why-china-is-still-the...
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more. www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-wee...
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better. www.wired.com/story/how-do-caterpillars-he...
The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor. www.wired.com/story/japan-launching-probe-...
The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild. www.wired.com/story/secret-orangutan-breed...
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March. www.wired.com/story/ice-wants-to-know-who-...
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up. www.wired.com/story/measles-outbreaks-immu...
The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand. www.wired.com/story/another-perfect-geomet...
Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor. www.wired.com/story/pig-kidney-transplant-...
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky. www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-o...
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents www.wired.com/story/prediction-market-bett...
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development. www.wired.com/story/openai-says-gpt-6-can-...
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup. www.wired.com/story/openai-elon-musk-curso...
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets. www.wired.com/story/nvidias-hugging-face-a...
An underground detector recorded a strange interaction pointing to a particle with some properties that signify dark matter. The detection is small but promising. www.wired.com/story/scientists-find-most-c...
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description. www.wired.com/story/flock-ai-search-user-i...
Common sense is of no help in studying reality at the atomic scale. www.wired.com/story/is-it-even-possible-to...
While companies promise they can help users monitor gut health, experts suggest that smart toilets provide little in the way of benefits to the average person. www.wired.com/story/smart-toilets-using-ai...
The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide. www.wired.com/story/2026-supersized-el-nin...
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-pushes-its-new-ai...
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use. www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-s...
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models. www.wired.com/story/russian-startup-mostik...
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer. www.wired.com/story/bot-vs-bot-job-intervi...
Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond. www.wired.com/story/pangram-has-emerged-as...
Prop 65 was meant to inform consumers, not to tell them which products to buy. But a product without a warning isn’t necessarily free of contaminants. www.wired.com/story/why-does-everything-ha...