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The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible. wired.com/story/anthropi…

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED. wired.com/story/a-top-de…

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets. wired.com/story/google-s…

One expert says that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be not recessionary, but depressionary. wired.com/story/iran-war…

While the United States and Europe are moving cautiously forward with clinical trials, China is racing toward the commercialization of brain implants. wired.com/story/china-ap…

When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate? wired.com/story/linkedin…

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide. wired.com/story/the-dang…

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department. wired.com/story/us-takes…

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets. wired.com/story/google-s…

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people. wired.com/story/signals-…

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable. wired.com/story/how-ai-c…

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather. wired.com/story/get-read…

After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini. wired.com/story/ai-lab-w…

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites. wired.com/story/hundreds…

On March 26, a panel of WIRED experts will dissect the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare. Submit your questions now. wired.com/story/livestre…

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world. wired.com/story/he-built…

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. wired.com/story/a-quantu…

In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military. wired.com/story/departme…

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. wired.com/story/sears-ex…

In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began. wired.com/story/crypto-b…