OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier...
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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,”...
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Read our conversation with Coxon, which has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity, below.WIRED: You’re not the first person...
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
The adoption of AI tools by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data at 70,000 companies collected by the...
Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026
Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an...
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation...
Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, availability, release date
Carrying culinary adventures into the unknown comes the Le Creuset x Star Trek: Galileo shuttlecraft casserole dish ($150), which has...
Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans
Why is longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store? Bloomberg’s...
The Best Laptop Backpacks for Work, Travel, and Everything Between (2026)
Though I’ve been working from home for the past 15 years, both freelance and full-time, this often means needing to...
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A...
There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
Every year around this time, Apple announces new iPhones. The products go on sale soon after, usually ranging from a...
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots,...
Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
Other deals among WIRED-recommended grills include $50 off a couple of Weber's durable, last-you-forever standbys—the Weber Kettle and the Weber...
Less than 24 hours to apply for your Disrupt 2026 Side Event
The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during...
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the...
TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more
TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for...
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