The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

The left wants AI regulation. They just can’t agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.

Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked.

Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright opposed to oversight.

I used an open-source map of a fruit fly’s brain to vibe code a website called PitchFly. Its headline suggestions were delightfully bananas.

The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.