“I do see this as a continued trajectory of their main business model of controlling what people see, putting ads in front of them, and…
Category: Primers
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…
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
On September 10, two days after researcher Jacob Coxon, who had recently quit his job at Anthropic, sounded the alarm about the industry potentially bringing…
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Napster is back. The name that struck fear into the hearts of music executives in the early dotcom era may be coming to a classroom…