Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going

We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Here’s what they said.

Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous

Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.

People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them

As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.

How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal

Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.