“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco int…
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House – but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a “restored” one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google’s AI detector as “made or […]
Trump’s newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”
We knew that a number of big tech firms were helping to fund the construction of Trump’s ballroom, but we didn’t know just how much they were giving to the cause. Now the Washington Post published a list of all the major donors to the White House ballroom project, along with how much each contributed. […]
The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously announced. Donald Trump announced the plan was off in a post on Truth Social: I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how […]
Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the creator and media spaces for his work investigating […]
As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test.
Contracts tied to elections in Ethiopia and Romania saw massive trading volumes after the outcomes were decided. “It’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” one expert says.
With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.