Oct 25, 2005 4:41 PM

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These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Will Knight

Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark.

Ritsuko Kawai

The Physics Behind Tesla’s Flying Roadster

To understand how Elon’s new car hops, glides, and sticks upside down, we need to talk about friction and force.

Rhett Allain

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

Aarian Marshall

WIRED Ghost Stories

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

Steven Levy

Tesla’s Roadster 2 Is Late—and Entering a Different EV World

Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars.

Aarian Marshall

Scientists Trapped an Antimatter Particle for Months to Study Its Secrets

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter.

Jorge Garay

GM Wants Your Car to Do Your Chores

The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner.

Aarian Marshall

This Is What the GOP’s Final Midterms Push Looks Like

Republicans are spending their time and money on Senate races in historically red states—a sign they’re more nervous than ever as Election Day looms.

Hugo Lowell

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Tom Bristow