A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.

Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.

The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida, and may have long-term implications for the company's ambitions.

Sex workers appear on the livestreams of famous manosphere influencers to boost their followings—but often end up being degraded.

Claims about low testosterone and false accusations of veganism might play well to the online far right, but will they win an election?

LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.

The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona today.

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. The group lost its funding under Trump in part due to conspiracy theories.

Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it's too hot to go outside.

The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.

According to federal prosecutors, Michele Spagnuolo made more than $1 million on the prediction market platform using confidential information about Google Search traffic.

The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.

Amid ongoing economic anxieties, BLK and other companies are giving away basic essentials to appeal to the public.

Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name.

The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.

The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

Bugonia, Good Boy, and Send Help are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.

Jason Rezaian spent years reporting from Iran before being imprisoned by the regime. He says internet access is key to transforming the country—if only the US government would do something about it.

There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans.

From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.

The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

Dozens of juiced athletes competed at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. Most won’t admit what drugs they used.

As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.

The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing.

The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe.

I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.

Unlike Euphoria, the Apple TV show wants to humanize the experience of sex workers rather than catastrophize the extremes of the profession.

As nonconsensual explicit deepfakes continue to proliferate online, entire communities are now collaborating on this digital form of sexual abuse.

Rick and Morty, The Boroughs, and Battlestar Galactica are just a few of the TV shows you should be watching right now.

Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina.

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.

The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely available.

Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They're certainly not alone.

Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter.

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing.

“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.

The LA mayoral candidate and former reality TV star is fueling his campaign with fears about an ultra-potent meth. Experts say it’s drug war propaganda.

OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

From designer straws to magnet-sealed leather pouches, the platform is awash in products seemingly built for coke—despite Meta’s policies on drug paraphernalia.

Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.

Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.

As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they no longer want to be associated with.

RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.

Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more.

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is proposing a new jobs guarantee for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.

In an interview with WIRED ahead of her new concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), Billie Eilish talked about whether or not future artists will be able to leverage SoundCloud the way she did.

These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?

If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as Apple settles class-action lawsuit.

Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.

Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk's children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.