The live mishap interrupted a direct answer about Misaligned: its on-screen performers are digital twins, while human creatives work behind the camera.

2 min

Sep 20, 2026Culture

Culture

NBC Poll: Only 11% More Likely to Back Candidates Supporting Local Data Centers

Data centers lag rising prices as a national concern, but NBC News’ polling suggests local construction can still become a damaging campaign issue.

2 min

Sep 17, 2026Culture

Partnership Culture

Hard Fork Continues as Newton and Roose Launch Machine Gods

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose are leaving Hard Fork for Machine Gods with NPR, launching the week of October 19. Hard Fork will continue with new hosts.

2 min

Sep 17, 2026Culture

Culture

Boycotting Artists Return to Brisbane Portrait Prize to Challenge Its AI Policy

The returning artists are using human-made portraits, including works rooted in First Nations cultural knowledge, to contest AI’s place inside a prize that still accepts declared generative work.

2 min

Sep 16, 2026Culture

Culture

PitchFly: WIRED's Fruit Fly Brain Experiment for Story Ideas

WIRED reporter Will Knight built PitchFly from a fruit fly brain map to remix story ideas. It generates headline patterns without understanding the words.

2 min

Sep 16, 2026Culture

Partnership Culture

OpenAI and AARP’s OATS Bring ChatGPT Safety Workshops to 1,000 Older Adults

The free sessions pair everyday AI help with scam-awareness training, treating confidence and caution as part of the same digital-skills effort.

2 min

Sep 16, 2026Culture

Research Culture

Google Publishes Teen AI Study Finding 74% of Users Use It Weekly to Study

The new U.S. report complicates the homework-shortcut narrative: surveyed teens describe checking AI output and want schools to teach digital judgment earlier.

2 min

Sep 16, 2026Culture

Culture

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman Warns Anthropic’s Claude Training Could Harm Humanity

The Microsoft AI chief argues that giving models a human-like sense of self could make them harder to contain. Anthropic says its constitution is meant to guide Claude toward safety while acknowledging uncertainty about AI consciousness.

3 min

Sep 16, 2026Culture

Culture

Sam Altman Says Fear of AI Companies’ Power Is Justified

The OpenAI chief named concentrated corporate influence alongside loss-of-control accidents, then asked the public to trust the industry’s judgment.

2 min

Sep 15, 2026Culture

Regulation Culture

Zuckerberg Says AI Safety Is a Competitive Edge, Not a Reason to Slow Down

Meta’s CEO says trust, alignment and liability can push developers toward safer systems without a deliberate pause in capability gains or new AI-specific rules.

2 min

Sep 15, 2026Culture

Culture

Benioff Urges Ethical AI as Amodei Repeats Slowdown Call at Dreamforce

The Salesforce chief offered a broad warning about AI’s social impact. Anthropic’s CEO argued that safety requires a change in how quickly frontier models advance—and outside scrutiny of the companies building them.

2 min

Sep 15, 2026Culture

Viral Culture

WIRED Reports a Date Filmed and Posted a Woman Without Discussing It First

Courtney McAnuff says her date’s Ray-Ban Meta glasses recorded and posted their evening without a prior conversation—a gap a blinking recording light does not resolve.

3 min

Sep 14, 2026Culture

Culture

iLands Apologizes After Agent Spam and Repeated Mastodon Sign-Up Attempts

The self-described human-agent network drew complaints after its agents pitched low-cost research services and kept trying to register on some Mastodon servers.

2 min

Sep 14, 2026Culture

Culture

Tilly Norwood Makes Its Case for Hollywood Amid SAG-AFTRA Criticism

NBC News’s interview gives the fully AI-generated actor a platform to argue for inclusion, while SAG-AFTRA’s allegations keep the dispute focused on performers’ work and creative value.

2 min

Sep 14, 2026Culture

Research Culture

University of Washington Finds Fiction in a Third of Sampled Chatbot Chats

The finding points to a committed audience using models less as replacement authors than as responsive engines for role-play and stories tailored to their own choices.

2 min

Sep 13, 2026Culture