Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.

“I think we will see this just as we do with cars and robotaxis.”

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Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

Discord is "opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget."

With new breakthroughs in math and biology alongside reports of AI agents escaping and hacking systems, suffice it to say AI has had an interesting few weeks. How worried should we be about it…

Facial recognition is everywhere now. Soon it's going to be right in your face, too.

Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

On September 23, 2026, the Jiang’an District People’s Court in Wuhan, China announced the first case in Hubei Province involving copyright infringement of an AI-assisted short drama, holding that AI-g...

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the United States and Russia acted to strip oversight from a global AI weapons pact. According to the Washington...

Blocked from other social media, middle schoolers have had to get creative.

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

A Mississippi wildlife rescue gives abandoned and injured baby raccoons their best chance of survival through a program they call “raccoon boot camp.”

Public policy statements by ACM and its policy committees.

Plus, Anthropic delays its IPO, and AI agents have trust issues.

At the turn of the 19th century, American courts held hot air balloon operators strictly liable while subjecting railroads only to negligence, shaping the traje

Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteri...

WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.