Artificial Intelligence news from WIRED magazine
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting Peopl...
WIRED found over 100 YouTube channels using AI to create lazy fanfiction-style videos. Despite being obviously fake, there’s a psychological reason people are falling for them.
AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games....
Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.
Why Trump Flip-Flopped on Nvidia Selling H20 Chips...
Nvidia struck a surprising deal after convincing the president that H20 chips aren’t a national security risk. But whether the reversal is good or bad depends on who you ask.
Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze...
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash ...
Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract....
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.
Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself...
Anytime you expect AI to be self-aware, you’re in for disappointment. That’s just not how it works.
The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale
Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters.
OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Output...
The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.
GPT-5 Doesn't Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Ben...
Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact.