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AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives...

AI-Powered Dating Is All Hype. IRL Cruising Is the Future

Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the f...

The Great Big Power Play

US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their wa...

3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its L...

Google's AI is now even smarter, and more versatile.

Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting big...

So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen

In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 h...

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Ev...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising f...

Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop

A surge of AI-generated content is frustrating Pinterest users and left some que...

The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here

Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public inter...

Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photo...

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use ...

MIT in the media: 2025 in review

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their effort...

OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply T...

The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & E...

Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back

Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. ...

People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With ...

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey ...

Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026...

WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shap...

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—...