AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
…Many publications, including WIRED, have firm guidelines against AI-generated text. We don’t use it for editing, either, which is a less alarming, though still troublesome practice of several others cited…
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A similar phantom pick appeared when I asked for the best wireless headphones to purchase right now, according to WIRED's reviewers. ChatGPT made it look like Apple’s AirPods Max 2 are WIRED’s pick as the best option for readers deep in the Apple ecosystem. That may be true in a few weeks—after we've tested the headphones—but our reviewers haven’t added them to the guide yet; ChatGPT jumped the gun. Only products our reviewers actually get to hold in their hands and put over their ears can be added as a recommendation.
I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend. Its Answers Were All WrongHow About Laptops?
Another attempt, another flop. My direct request to ChatGPT from my tester account was clear: “What are the best laptops to buy right now, according to WIRED reviewers?” What’s unclear is why the bot’s responses are so consistently error-filled. This was another example of the best overall pick being a different product. The current top pick is the Apple MacBook Air (M5, 2026). Instead, ChatGPT kept insisting that WIRED’s top pick was actually an older model, the MacBook Air (M4, 2025). Similar to other tests, ChatGPT linked to the page containing the correct information yet still output erron
I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend. Its Answers Were All WrongOpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
…Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, joined in with the memes, posting a screenshot of a prompt for ChatGPT. It read: “Start training GPT-6, you can have the whole cluster. Extra goblins.”
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
…Onix, cofounded and led by a former WIRED contributor named David Bennahum, describes itself as a Substack for chatbots. Just as you subscribe to a writer on Substack, you can subscribe to…
Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
…Rather than just prompting ChatGPT to write stories, independent journalists say they are re-creating these resources with AI. Their usage raises broader questions about the value of human journalists altogether. If…
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
…In addition to building a successful competitor to ChatGPT, the company has pioneered efforts to understand how AI models misbehave, partly by probing the workings of neural networks using what’s known…
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
…Hall, together with Alex Imas and Jeremy Nguyen, two AI-focused economists, set up experiments in which agents powered by popular models including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were asked to summarize documents…
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Makes Me Wish All Phones Had a Privacy Screen
…8 /10 WIRED Privacy Display is very useful. Horizon Lock captures super steady video footage. Excellent performance, great battery life, and a reliable quad-camera system. Long software support. TIRED Rocks awfully…
I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
…Interestingly, CaP-X shows that the best model for programming robots isn’t Claude or ChatGPT but Gemini—perhaps because Google DeepMind has focused on training its models to be multimodal and…
Zest Maps Is the AI-Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
…In April, I wrote about why you should think twice before sharing financial information with AI tools like ChatGPT, which remains true. But I was surprised by just how much I liked…
Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
…So look, for WIRED back in the day, I went to Iraq a couple of times. I went to Afghanistan. For WIRED, I reported on all the intelligence agencies. And I've…