The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machineAn ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living...
6 Best Digital Photo Frames (2025): Aura, Nixplay, Skylight
Honorable MentionsAeezo 9-inch frame $90: This frame will do the job, but the app—the Frameo app, rather than a dedicated Azeeo app, which we've...
The 8 Best Handheld Vacuums, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
A Handheld vacuum may not be the most essential household appliance, but they sure are convenient. You don’t have to mess with heavy, cumbersome...
DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is ‘Really Not Leaving’
Elon Musk will not be fully exiting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—and its activities are only intensifying. On Friday, President Donald Trump...
Fueling seamless AI at scale
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which took AI mainstream,...
This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to...
It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to focus on how chatbots...
WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
With Elon Musk and other leaders of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) purportedly on their way out, WIRED spoke with a fired...
The Download: the next anti-drone weapon, and powering AI’s growth
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed with explosive warheads or...
What will power AI’s growth?
As I discovered while I continued that line of reporting, building new nuclear plants isn’t so simple or so fast. And as my colleague...
Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’
The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake and absolutely unambiguous wrongdoing,...
