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Theater productions Doomers and McNeal tackle AI’s impact on humanity and the creative process.

The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making wo...

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged des...

Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the safety-standards agency as p...

This week, the Uncanny Valley hosts discuss the lawsuits, bidding wars, and power plays over OpenAI.

Here's how the 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against DOGE—and how you can protect yourself from government surveillance.

Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself fr...

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump Administrat...

WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language tutor for travele...

Meta's Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, an...

After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she's working on.

Argentinian president Javier Milei is facing calls for impeachment and a possible criminal investigation for his role in the rise and fast c...

Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These...

Did bureaucrats in the US plot to cut the crypto industry out of the banking system? An investigation begins.

Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.

Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right a...

The move reportedly comes after US Attorney General Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.

The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of auth...

The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of auth...

On this week's episode of Uncanny Valley, we asses the state of swiping.

After former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao went to prison, Richard Teng set out to show that the crypto exchange is now on its best behavior.

The "cease work" order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulat...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and shoul...

The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s xAI startup is researching a method to alter the politics of Grok and better align the chatbot with...