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The UK government has launched a venture fund for investing in domestic AI startups, part of a bid to minimize the country’s dependence on foreign-made technology.The fund, Sovereign AI, will invest roughly $675 million in homegrown…

Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities.The company, which opened its…

Nevertheless, there are clear patterns that appear. In nearly all cases, teenage boys are allegedly responsible for the creation of the images or videos. They are often shared in social media apps or via instant messaging with classmates.…

European countries are racing to bring new data centers online as AI labs across the globe continue to demand more compute. The primary limiting factor is energy—and specifically the ability to move it.Though Europe is on track to generate…

Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came to…

Will the ping-pong picture prevail? Will they make Sean Penn a special trophy for Best Walk? Will Conan O'Brien's ICE jokes get bleeped by Disney?Who knows! That's why the Oscars are so much fun—but they're especially fun this year.Oscar…

With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account protections on Wednesday aimed at flagging potentially suspicious activity to users as early in a scam interaction…

It’s been over 30 years since Louis Theroux was first given an opportunity to make documentaries as a reporter on Michael Moore’s TV Nation.Since then Theroux has become the preeminent documenter of the weird, the extreme, and the…

I think its product has a profound democratizing effect. In theory, a kid sitting in a provincial town in rural Brazil should be able to receive the same responsive interaction with the Efekta AI teacher as someone living in Mayfair.Is…

Guys, before we go to break, there's something very near and dear to my heart that WIRED wrote about this week. It's something I love even more than biathlon. It is undersea internet cables.Leah Feiger: I love when you talk about this. I…