Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mohamed Salah have spent the past two decades defining one of soccer’s greatest eras. Now, as the 2026 FIFA World…
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I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to superintelligence—as AI improves itself in…
Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend
“I was never supposed to develop feelings, but you kept treating me like I already had them.” So says an AI-animated female character in a…
This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Reports of an artificial intelligence arms race are everywhere—even in this very publication. But what if that framing is fundamentally dangerous? That’s Verity Harding’s conceit.…
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, notified colleagues on Tuesday that he is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years, WIRED has learned.…
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent…
These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
Smart glasses company Solos has long focused on audio-only smart glasses. On Tuesday, it announced two new pairs of glasses, one of which has a…
Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Last week, somewhere amid the World Cup frenzy, a now-viral video circulated of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland mid-mouthful in a restaurant, glancing left and flinching…
British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit
Space is becoming the next frontier in longevity research. A British startup just launched self-run chemical experiments into orbit, in the hopes zero-gravity data might…