Talks have begun between US and Chinese officials to propose a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of artificial intelligence incidents which…
Category: Primers
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got…
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy…
Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster believes OpenAI used his work to rush ahead and beat him to solving a legendary math problem with a $1 million bounty.…
Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4
For more than a century, World’s Fairs have given people a first glimpse of what’s next: breakthroughs, ideas, and ways of living that would go…
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Many AI researchers seem to firmly believe that the technology they are developing could someday prove very dangerous. What’s less clear—even among AI’s technical elite—is…
AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to $1 million into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking…
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results,…
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream
Uh oh, we got a cute alert! It’s Bezzy, your adorable, cuddly, anthropomorphized server-rack and stuffed-animal friend! Give this soft lil’ doll a squeeze, and…