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A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human exper...

Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the cry...

In the days before TikTok went dark, Meta released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting itself as a comparable alternat...

When he launched his own cryptocurrency, Donald Trump produced unimaginable wealth from thin air. But it will come at a cost to someone.

A marketing campaign brief obtained by WIRED reveals how the Chinese app is trying to capitalize on its sudden international popularity.

Lemon8, CapCut, and Gauth are among the other victims of the US ban on ByteDance-owned apps.

After President Biden declined to reassure Apple, Google, and Oracle that they wouldn’t be fined for giving Americans access to TikTok, the...

The Meta CEO is abandoning his commitment to the truth in favor of a Trump-style playbook.

The China-controled EV brand has been losing tens of thousands of dollars on every car sold. With a US ban on Chinese car sales looming, the...

Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users join...

The same lawyers handling a lawsuit over the infamous Hawk Tuah crypto coin are bringing a new class action against memecoin platform Pump.F...

It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms...

The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how...

Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.

Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.

Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren't expect...

The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of un...

A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into t...

Pump.Fun raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in its first year in operation. Despite some growing pains, its creators say this is just...

Less than a week before Donald Trump takes office, the SEC has filed a complaint against his most prominent benefactor.

Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s A...

Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and c...

A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landf...

Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely...

The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.