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GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with their prompts. Users who want to be part of the first wave to…

The story of the infamous Humane Ai Pin is coming to an end. This week, the company announced that HP—known for its computers and printers that always seem to need a refill—will acquire several assets from Humane in a $116 million deal…

Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused how playwrights have been dealing with the implications of…

Lauren Goode: Sam said that?Zoë Schiffer: To his employees.Lauren Goode: Interesting.Michael Calore: He also came out on X and said something about, "I wish he would compete."Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yeah. He was like, "I wish he would compete in…

Are there generative AI tools I can use that are perhaps slightly more ethical than others?—Better ChoicesNo, I don't think any one generative AI tool from the major players is more ethical than any other. Here’s why.For me, the ethics of…

Last September Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” The rumor in Silicon Valley was that she was stepping down to start her own…

We check with everybody to see if we have their consent, from every part of their body, to receive medicine. Then our medical doctor and registered nurse distribute the medicine through a shot—it’s all intramuscular.If it’s your first time…

Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I'm incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you.Lauren Goode: I'm going to assume that romantasy is romance and fantasy?Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yes it is. Dragons.…

It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not…

Michael Calore: This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. I'm Michael Calore, Director of Consumer Tech and Culture here at Wired.Zoë Schiffer: I'm Zoe Schiffer, WIRED's director of…