A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.

Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.

Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.

The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a tool,” one person tells WIRED. “It should never be given the keys.”