You don’t have to be a fan of musicals to know about the Wicked film franchise—it’s been everywhere since the first film launched last year,…
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Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
About 10 Apple employees spent some of their valuable hours over recent months on a project that might seem unusual for the tech giant: customizing…
OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
OpenAI has quietly reversed a major change to how hundreds of millions of people use ChatGPT. On a low-profile blog that tracks product changes, the…
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, announced internally on Monday that she is leaving the company in January, WIRED has learned. In a statement to…
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
Nvidia has made a fortune supplying chips to companies working on artificial intelligence, but today the chipmaker took a step toward becoming a more serious…
This Startup Wants to Build Self-Driving Car Software—Super Fast
For the last year and a half, two hacked white Tesla Model 3 sedans each loaded with five extra cameras and one palm-sized supercomputer have…
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been…
AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
Last week, some of the most forward-thinking minds in tech, culture, and politics came together for WIRED’s Big Interview event—a series of live, in-depth conversations…
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of…