With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.
Steven Levy / Wired: Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos — With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
Activists say it’s the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.
Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.
Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
Zak Brown spent a decade racing before joining the business side of Formula One. He talks to WIRED about rebuilding a legendary brand, obsessive fans, and the pull of the driver’s seat.
Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure …
The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.
Dozens of people have complained to the Federal Trade Commission about Norse Atlantic Airways’ tech-first customer service operation. Some said they lost thousands of dollars.
Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.
New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.
The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.
Lauren Goode / Wired: AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a “quasi-random” networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows — The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
According to federal prosecutors, Michele Spagnuolo made more than $1 million on the prediction market platform using confidential information about Google Search traffic.
The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation — Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.
Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.
The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
Kate Knibbs / Wired: How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years — There's a mad dash to automate the world's most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You'll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Daniel Boguslaw / Wired: US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom — As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards …
The acquisition struck many people as a bizarre mismatch, but it's really a sign of where Chinese ecommerce giants are already going.
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
Hyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.
Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.
The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging that Grok created sexualized images.
The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.
The long-awaited documents SpaceX filed with US regulators Wednesday included details about a lucrative deal to lend GPUs to a major AI rival.
The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.
On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.
The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.
The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.