AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue:...
With a Better Understanding of Physics, We Could Predict Volcanic Eruptions
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the...
The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’
Rockstar Games’ best-selling Grand Theft Auto series wasn’t often accused of political sensitivity during its legendary run from the late...
From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
Editor’s note: After more than a decade, this is the last WIRED Security News This Week. “The roundup,” as we...
‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the...
You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Friday, the Fifth Circuit...
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents...
Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
A set of parents and their children in Illinois and California filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in...
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Here at WIRED we’ve been trying to make sense of at least two incidents in the AI industry this week:...
He’s One of Just 50 People With Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass. You Choose What He Eats Next
Everyone knows that when you’re at Olive Garden, you’re family. But in the 44 years since the casual Italian-American restaurant...
I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere’s Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren’t Sold on It
There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that...
The Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitch
In 2006, Donald Trump was firing people on The Apprentice and Dr. Phil was daytime television’s reigning tough-love therapist. Twenty...
How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
There are many, many strange things about the stew of conspiracy theories that fall under the umbrella of “9/11 Truth”—the...
The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Drones
Defense agencies of Mexico and the US have announced they are implementing a new collaborative strategy to combat drones used...
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As...
