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In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to canceling books by authors suspected of using LLMs.But behind the…

Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.Even as AI supercharges digital…

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…

The piece appeared in a remarkable anthology from 1996, Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace, published by Seal Press, a sort of consciousness-raising meeting in book form. One of the anthology’s editors, Elizabeth Reba…

Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT underscores the…

Zoë Schiffer: This is a conversation?Brian Barrett: It is though. So I'm talking over you because—Zoë Schiffer: No, no, do it.Brian Barrett: I'm joking, but the whole point of I think the fact that they're making these so cutesy and fluffy…

Engaged in a flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan, 23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as he explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir, the data analytics company cofounded by Alex Karp and Peter…

Voice assistants handling phone calls is a little more accepted today than back in the Duplex days. Call screening features abound—whether on a Pixel, Samsung, or iPhone, onboard assistants routinely intercept unknown callers to ask why…

One of the first things I did when I left my full-time job at WIRED was give Claude Cowork access to my email and calendar. After reporting on artificial intelligence for years, I was curious about what the technology could do for me. I had…

The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and American software company Palantir. If one part of the NHS is already doing without…