Last week, US regulators banned a wide variety of Chinese-made robots from being imported to the United States because of concerns about national security. Saurabh…
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‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
If you want a clear understanding of how AI is affecting Hollywood … good luck. Some of the industry loathes the technology, with screenwriters, directors,…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
Joe Allen wants to know what the robot’s name is. At first, I think the double whiskey we downed at the hotel bar must be…
AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
“The restaurants ended up spending more time smoothing over the problem they created,” says Michael Schatzberg, cofounder of Branded Hospitality, which invests in food-service-technology companies.…
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s…
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In…
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is…
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
For 6 months, my husband convinced everyone that I had stolen millions from the company I built, including our own daughter. As I sat in…
This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence
Over the past few years, the term “weaponized incompetence” has blown up in dating discourse online. It’s used to describe someone—most often the guy, when…