AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
…Meta recently said it would deploy 1 gigawatt of compute capacity with a new chip developed with Broadcom. Deploying custom silicon also involves writing a lot of code so that it runs…
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Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
…None have released public statements on this development. The list was published by the semi-official, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–linked Tasnim News Agency alongside a warning that the scope of the…
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
…Earlier this year, Isomorphic Labs announced an even more powerful tool, what it calls IsoDDE, its proprietary drug-design engine. In a technical paper, the company touts that the platform more than…
Portable Translators Can Help You Speak Like a Local When Traveling Abroad
…I have been testing and reviewing handheld translators for WIRED for five years, and I've developed a keen sense of how a good product should work and which ones I'd…
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…Early last month, Meta began forcibly moving at least 1,000 top engineers to a new Applied AI Engineering division working on tools and data to help research scientists develop better generative…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…All told, the automotive, beauty, home management, hardware, and tools categories account for over half of Instant Checkout orders. In the new experience, Walmart users log into Sparky the first time they…
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026
…Go With the Flow Last year, Google showed off its Flow tool set for creating videos, images, and music. This year, Flow gets some new capabilities that will make it easier for…
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
…Mercor and its competitors—such as Surge, Handshake, Turing, Labelbox, and Scale AI—have developed a reputation for being incredibly secretive about the services they offer to major AI labs. It’s…
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
…Some of the work is meant to help develop AI agents that generate software or other outputs. One worker describes the assignment as “mechanical and not creative,” and certainly “not using their…
The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
…It ended months later when xAI developed an in-house AI image model. In recent months, xAI approached Black Forest Labs about licensing the startup's technology again, sources familiar with the…