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AI startup Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi and backed by a16z, which is leading the startup’s $16 million seed round.

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.

Gusto has shared an impressive milestone on its actual revenue, not an ARR number that estimates future income.

The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.

The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025.

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.

Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made many comments over the years about how AI will be "a supercharger to love and relationships."

Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community -- creators who discuss and review books on TikTok -- the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add photos of things like favorite quotes or memes, or share playlists that match the book's vibes.

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics.

An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.

Melinda Lewison's departure raises questions about Bezos' support and involvement with the startup at a time when the Amazon founder is now apparently focused on robotics at his new startup, Project Prometheus.

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.

The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor.

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Mark Zuckerberg has said he wants to make AI agents more accessible.

It's also the company's first fully-electric three-row SUV.

Must everything be part of the panopticon?

It's no longer locked behind a Max subscription. 

Prime members can also claim a code for Mafia II: Definitive Edition.

Hopefully fewer of the coveted controllers will be snapped up by bots and resellers this time.

One of the genre's top-rated games is going 1.0 and adding a new map.

No trackballs here.

It can control just about everything you plug into it and operates as an audio interface.

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The Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 promises next-gen AI camera features while the Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 offers a big boost in GPU performance.

Silent Hill and Dragon Quest round out the class of 2026.

Premium users in more than 75 markets will now have access to it.

The new Health app is rolling out on May 19.

The well-received title was developed by a single person.

Valve's new Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is going to open a "reservations queue" on Friday at 1PM ET for anyone who missed that initial run. When the controller initially went on sale, many potential buyers experienced difficulties checking out before the controller went out of stock, and some sellers on eBay posted listings for the controllers that were considerably more expensive than Valve's $99 asking price. "While we were happy to see such a high level of interest, the experience for a lot of you trying to buy it was

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designated as a "Trusted Contact" will be notified if OpenAI detects that a person may have discussed topics like self-harm or suicide with the chatbot. "Trusted Contact is designed around a simple, expert-validated premise: when someone may be in crisis, connecting with someone they know and trust can make a meaningful difference," OpenAI said in its announcement. "It offers another layer of support alongside the localized helplines already available … Read the full

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. Elon Musk, his financial manager and Neuralink CEO, Jared Birchall, and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman have already testified before the jury. Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who shares four children with Musk, took the stand on Wednesday, and the courtroom also watched former OpenAI CTO Mura Murati’s videotaped

Microsoft showed off a "consistent" Xbox UI across handhelds, consoles, and cloud gaming during its Xbox keynote at the Game Developers Conference in March. At the time it was difficult to see if there was anything new about the UI from the videos and photos captured during the event, but Microsoft has now given us a closer look at it thanks to a new video of the keynote that was published earlier today. Jason Ronald, VP of next generation at Xbox, showed off the UI while mentioning that players had been noticing "a lot of fragmentation within the experience" across devices,

A Yarbo lawnmower with a trimmer attachment. | Image: Yarbo I'm lying in the dirt. It's coming for me. Then, with a lurch, it's climbing up my chest. If Andreas Makris doesn't stop the 200-pound robot lawn mower in time, it could drag its blades across my body. Makris certainly can't reach over and hit the emergency stop button - he's nearly 6,000 miles away, having hacked this robot from the other side of the planet, to demonstrate the gaping security holes in Yarbo's robot lawn mowers. And I've made the questionable decision of lying down in the mower's path - to

While the outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic is concerning, the virus isn’t easily transmitted through casual contact.

I have a horrendous lighting setup in my home office, but as a mixed-use room, my options for fixing it were limited.

OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.

Give Mom the best and save some cash in the process with these legitimate discounts on WIRED-approved gifts.

In an email viewed by WIRED, Ethan Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as “a defense company backed by big names.”

Blood glucose levels can be a reliable indicator of diabetes risk. But in some populations, it's not enough to catch the disease early.

Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year’s end. While Fitbit remains very much alive, the rebranded Google Health app is your one-stop shop for all things health and fitness.

Powered by Gemini and designed around simplicity, the new Fitbit Air could finally give the screenless fitness tracker market a compelling alternative to Whoop.

Sleep Number’s new model leans plush, but its smart support might convert even die-hard firmness fans.

Need to print labels, stickers, stacks of pages, color photos, or even a textured mug? I tested the best home printers, including ink-tank, cartridge, and laser options.

Our writer tried some of the most popular insect repellents during runs, hikes, and evening walks. These are the ones we recommend.

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

When Stick Figure’s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes.

We put 36 sunscreens to the test during summer hikes, spring ski days, and beachside hangs. Out of all the mineral, chemical, and spray varieties we tried, these are our top picks.

Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it.

Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.

Admit it: It’s inevitable you will forget to charge your Bluetooth pair.

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Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.

In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month.

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?

It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

I feel about luggage carousels the same way I feel about head lice: avoid at all costs. These are the best carry-on suitcases for those who never want to check a bag again.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

This new app tracks every time you swipe your card at a cool restaurant—and tells all your friends.

These nifty tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.

After six years, the ReMarkable 2 gets a replacement in the form of the ReMarkable Paper Pure.

Cameras can offer peace of mind, but choose carefully before inviting one into your home.

I tested all the major webcams across the price spectrum in attempts to find the very best. Here's what I learned.

If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as part of the settlement.

The Focal Mu-so Hekla can almost replace a multi-speaker surround-sound setup.

Don’t let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker.

Smeg’s new retro-looking Forte stand mixer packs some serious power, but its performance isn’t as polished as its design.

The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts.