Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data

But in the years that followed, its chosen nonprofit partner, the Laogai Research Foundation, badly mismanaged…

2027 AGI forecast maps a 24-month sprint to human-level AI

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Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid…

An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between…

Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB

Over 1,400 employees who were about to be laid off from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this…

Meta’s Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend

This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the…

This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining

 “I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or…

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

Given how much we obsess over it, the concept of creativity can feel like something that…

Longevity clinics around the world are selling unproven treatments

The growing field of longevity medicine is apparently aiming for something in between these two ends…

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down

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New method lets DeepSeek and other models answer ‘sensitive’ questions

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This AI startup just raised $7.5m to fix commercial insurance for America’s 24m underprotected small businesses

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A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons

“We’ve been really pushing on ‘thinking,’” says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such…

Google Is Once Again Deemed a Monopoly, This Time in Ad Tech

A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online…

How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests

There have been a number of protests in the past few months pushing back against President…

Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Pittsburg facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as…

New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children

Discord is facing a new lawsuit from the state of New Jersey, which claims that the…

Trump’s Tariffs Haven’t Resulted in Higher Prices on Amazon—Yet

It’s been a week since President Donald Trump imposed massive tariffs on Chinese imports to the…

How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

Afterward, he worked at Komatsu Manufacturing—because, he said, he liked bulldozers. But in 1974, he saw…

These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy

A new report from the International Energy Agency digs into the details of energy and AI,…

NASA has made an air traffic control system for drones

Over the past decade, NASA and industry have demonstrated to the FAA through a series of…