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Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to ...

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and persona...

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a hos...

Wall Street Is Already Betting on Prediction Markets

As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial ins...

Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams

Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face ...

Discovery of 1949 whale recording could unlock mysterie...

The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 194...

A New Study Details How Cats Almost Always Land on Thei...

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spi...

Japan Approves the World’s First Treatment Made With Re...

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country ...

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?

The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the conflict is stranding cargo and threatening ...

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatb...

Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude ...

Google's AI Search Results Love to Refer You Back to Go...

The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, lik...

China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies

Hype around the open source agent is driving people to rent cloud servers and bu...

Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True

From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the indust...

The Shingles Virus May Be Aging You More Quickly

Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate agi...

Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini

WIRED spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of knowledge and information, about how ...

Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Inter...

“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini ques...