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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’

MAXWELL ZEFF

The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.

Google’s AI try-on feature for clothes now works with just a selfie

AISHA MALIK

In the past, users had to upload a full-body picture of themselves to virtually try on a piece of clothing. Now, they can use a selfie and Nano Banana will generate a full body digital version of them.

How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute

LOUISE MATSAKIS

Taiwan’s digital payment infrastructure is tactile, decentralized, and completely distinct from China’s QR code-dominated model.

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

BENJ EDWARDS

Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.

No sterile neutrinos after all, say MicroBooNE physicists

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

There's a less than 5 percent chance that earlier anomalies can be explained by fourth neutrino "flavor."

Fewer EVs need fewer batteries: Ford and SK On end their joint venture

JONATHAN M. GITLIN

Ford will keep the plant in Kentucky, SK gets the one in Tennessee.

Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming ‘massive’ copyright infringement

AISHA MALIK

Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI.

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data

DAVID GILBERT

A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

Best Holiday Coffee Subscription Deals (2025): Atlas, Trade

MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Coffee subscriptions offer their steepest discounts in December—including on WIRED's two favorite coffee subscriptions.

Ars Live: 3 former CDC leaders detail impacts of RFK Jr.’s anti-science agenda

BETH MOLE

Join us Tuesday, December 16, at 2 pm ET to hear from leaders who resigned in protest.

Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”

RYAN WHITWAM

Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.

Gazelle’s Arroyo offers a belt drive, continuous variable transmission

JOHN TIMMER

Gazelle's high-end commuter offers a belt drive and continuous variable transmission.

Epic Games’s Fortnite is back in US Google Play Store, as court partially reverses restrictions it won on iOS

SARAH PEREZ

The game is back on the Google Play Store, but another court decision is rolling back some of the developer-friendly changes on iOS.

The 45 Best Movies on Hulu, WIRED's Picks (December 2025)

JENNIFER M. WOOD, WIRED STAFF

Gremlins, Home Alone, and Sovereign are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

The market has ‘switched’ and founders have the power now, VCs say

ISABELLE JOHANNESSEN, MAGGIE NYE

Graham & Walker’s Leslie Feinzaig and XYZ Venture’s Ross Fubini share the secrets for founders — and VCs — to make the most of the current fast pace of dealmaking.