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The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough said she expected the company stood to reap a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

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raw | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge In response to a report that Nothing is planning to "exit 12 markets as global shipments decline," Nothing cofounder Akis Evangelidis said the company is "reorganizing" and laying off some of its staff, but that "the reported numbers are way overblown." Evangelidis disputed a claim about underwhelming sales for Nothing's Phone 4B, saying it "sold 29,537 units on Day 1 only, breaking records in its price segment." He also said Nothing isn't shutting down in any markets, and is instead "consolidating" its operations into regional hubs as well as introducing an "AI-native"

The Roku Ultra. | Image: Roku Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk . The price hike affects all of Roku's other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here's a rundown of the changes: Streaming Stick : $29.99 to $39.99 Streaming Stick Plus: $39.99 to $59.99 Streaming Stick 4K : $49.99 to $79.99 Roku Ultra: $99.99 to $149.99 Roku Streambar SE : $99.99 to $149.99 Roku is currently holding a sale that puts some devices

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099 , the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which is full of Blade Runner staples: a bleak futuristic LA, dramatic narration, and some really good coats. The show is helmed by Silka Luisa, previously showrunner on Apple TV's adaptation of Shining Girls , while original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott is signed on as an executive producer. 2099 stars Michelle

The web and Google once had a deal : Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead . And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay talk about the week's Google Zero news, including Reddit's interest in getting out of an AI training deal

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government's ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.) The Fable 5 concerns - and

These are the AC units we’ve trusted to cool our homes for months, if not years.

The TK705STi’s highly responsive, low-latency performance makes gameplay ultra-realistic. For movies and TV? It’s a purely average home projector.

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality.

From musical instruments and games to play pieces that encourage balance and dexterity, these toys will engage your child’s mind and body.

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

Analysis of satellite images of Myanmar shows dozens of alleged scam compounds have appeared in recent months, despite a purported crackdown on the criminal organizations.

If you’re tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated—and human-centric—way to find what you’re looking for.

After Trump publicly backed pillow salesman turned election denier Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, the local GOP pushed back strongly.

EU law gives researchers unprecedented rights to scrutinize social media data. Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta impede their attempts to look inside.

Outside experts—some with a vested interest in peptides—recommended adding a number of the amino acids to the FDA’s bulks list, including the “Wolverine stack” touted by Joe Rogan and other influencers.

The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

The European Commission claims that Google boosted its own apps and products to the top of search rankings to the detriment of its competitors.

Deck out your room and make class a cinch with these WIRED-tested favorites.

Cordless, handheld, robot, and traditional—we tested them all to find the vacuum that’s fantastic for fur.

The slim and convenient magnetic wallets you’ll actually want stuck to the back of your phone.

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for data centers increasingly reliant on fossil fuels.

Gas prices are up, and US car dealerships are full of hybrids. Customers are going for it.

Here are the best delivery services and meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s meal service, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.

The next time you’re locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.

The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.

I cranked Apple’s iOS 27 beta to maximum transparency on my iPhone and enjoyed every warped second.

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

Save on WIRED-tested LED therapy devices from TheraFace, HigherDose, and more.

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.

Samsung’s folding phone family has a new middle child with a fresh form factor, but which of its eighth-gen foldables is right for you?

People spend hours watching videos on their smartphones. The wider, shorter, and lighter Galaxy Z Fold8 caters to exactly that.

From powerful air movers and whisper-quiet pedestal models to options that double as misters, lamps, and air purifiers, these are the fans that impressed us most.

The fitness trackers I’d recommend to beginners, athletes, and kids.

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.

It’s “the most car-like Range Rover ever created,” but will this all-electric grand tourer spoil Jaguar’s Type 01 party?

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

The discounts may not beat Prime Day, but I found worthwhile prices on WIRED-approved TVs, laptops, tablets, speakers, and other home gear.

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.

A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.

A flip phone with 5G, USB-C, a headphone jack, and a removable battery? Say it ain’t so.