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Do you have ideas about how to improve America's space program?

ERIC BERGER

"Any time there’s dynamic change, there’s the opportunity for new ideas."

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works

AMANDA SILBERLING

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.

OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch

SARAH PEREZ

Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.

An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

ANDY GREENBERG

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.

I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator

REBECCA BELLAN

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Waymo has worked for years to gain access to SFO.

ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed

JOHN PUBLIUS

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Our Favorite Open Earbuds Are $60 Off

BRAD BOURQUE

The Anker Soundcore Aeroclip boast great sound without cutting you off from the outside world.

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.AI as the AI race heats up

LAUREN FORRISTAL

Apple announced its acquisition of Q.AI for a reported nearly $2 billion, making it the company's second-largest acquisition to date.

County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

DAN GOODIN

Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.

New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research

BENJ EDWARDS

New "Prism" workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.

Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours

JACEK KRYWKO

Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant.

A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI

JOEL KHALILI

As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mimic the human brain.

AI-Generated Anti-ICE Videos Are Getting the Fanfic Treatment

JASON PARHAM

Across Instagram and Facebook, AI-generated videos show people of color putting ICE agents in their place. Are they cathartic or just adding to a stew of misinformation?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says

AMANDA SILBERLING

This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.