Based on logged meals, the app predicts a person’s blood sugar response to those foods. It also makes personalized recommendations throughout the day, such as…
Category: Primers
The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
A short drive from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 acres of rolling farmland segmented…
Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe
These days, rather than showing you the traditional list of links when you run a search query, Google is intent on throwing up AI Overviews…
OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK
On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She…
Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy…
Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
If you’re the type of person who cares about Valentine’s Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer. While dating apps…
‘Uncanny Valley’: ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans, Palantir Workers’ Ethical Concerns, and AI Assistants
This week, hosts Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer discuss WIRED’s big scoop on ICE’s startling plans to expand to nearly every state in…
A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website…
OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
OpenAI’s president and cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of President Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025.…
Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
Cryptocurrency’s frictionless, transnational, low-regulation transactions have long promised the ability to pay anyone in the world for anything. More than ever before, that anything includes…