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From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.

Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.

In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.