Open the website of one explicit deepfake generator and you’ll be presented with a menu of horrors. With just a couple of clicks, it offers…
Category: Primers
People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting to object to a data…
Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was just one…
Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows
The NexPhone is a rugged device powered by a Qualcomm QCM64490 chip with a reportedly long support road map (through 2036), plus 12 GB of…
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its…
China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own
Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who’s 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone when she saw Charlie. She…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort
Welcome back to Uncanny Valley! This week, WIRED’s Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger are joining the show as the new cohosts, alongside Zoë Schiffer. And…
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking…
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached…
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
“We are moving into a new phase of informational warfare on social media platforms where technological advancements have made the classic bot approach outdated,” says…