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Kate Tolo got her first period at 13—an experience she says left her lying prostrate on the floor, debilitated by cramps and breaking out into a full-body sweat.When she told her dad why she was home from school early, she remembers him…

When you think of SeaWorld, you most likely think of orcas, school trips to the aquarium, or eating chicken fingers while contemplating the ethics of marine mammal captivity. But this Halloween, the theme park franchise wants to make…

Muse, like Skydive’s muppets, is represented by a cute and fuzzy little avatar. In the words of WIRED senior writer Reece Rogers, the user experience is something “like texting a friend with task requests—the AI agent acknowledges messages…

Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. Then a series of burner accounts on X started proliferating explicit, nonconsensual videos of her. This week, Zoë Schiffer sits down with WIRED senior…

Last week, after a Mississippi grand jury declined to bring criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old Black college student who disappeared on Horn Island while traveling with a group of white friends and was later found…

No, because there’s one problem with AI researchers, which is aspirational naming and aspirational stuff. So machine learning, that’s aspirational naming.But machine learning is real.But the naming is aspirational. The machine is not…

Yesterday, I spent the morning at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, where over 2,500 nerds discussed building software and marveled at the latest artificial intelligence models. The biggest reveal of the day was Dots, the company’s new, always-on…

The greatest threat to humanity’s survival isn’t climate change, nor is it AI. It’s airline pilots who like dressing up as hot cartoon foxes.That seemed to be the takeaway from a bizarre speech made last week by Alabama Republican Tommy…

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time, she says her hospital’s Palantir-powered scheduling software assigned her to different…

For better or for worse, romance lovers have never been hornier for hockey. Now, the National Hockey League wants to cash in.As part of its new “Hot for Hockey,” campaign, the NHL is rolling out romance novel-inspired short stories starring…