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He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With Him

OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXSI have all reached out to Husk, an influencer who regularly goes viral…

The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space

After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthu…

The Biggest Pro-AI Super Pac Network Didn't Really Impact the Midterms

Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million…

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

Google is tying up AI Overviews with traditional search, angering parents and educators who worry th…

Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’

“Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément …

The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers

From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did …

UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google

The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame th…

Here's Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Vote

From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are n…

‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and …

When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web

Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you…

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regu…

Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have …