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Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria

From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has...

Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if L...

What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?

Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on youn...

The End of Handwriting

For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. W...

AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Ac...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that ...

Vibe Coding is Shoot-and-Forget Coding

Vibe coding delivers quick wins, then leaves you stranded, because maintainabl...

When the model hallucinates, and you didn't know

Models will hallucinate. Sometimes when you are demoing the model like what happ...

Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag

Software engineers are finding that OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them thi...

Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silic...

This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American co...

Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble—and why he's willing to s...

‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on ...

WIRED found over 100 YouTube channels using AI to create lazy fanfiction-style v...

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and ...

MIT engineers used a machine-learning model to design nanoparticles that can del...

Why Trump Flip-Flopped on Nvidia Selling H20 Chips to C...

Nvidia struck a surprising deal after convincing the president that H20 chips ar...

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copy...

Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That m...

Invisible Unicode is what flags your content as AI-gene...

It's not having an em-dash that screams AI generated. It's the invisible Unicode...

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then...

Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthro...