Techno-doom narratives were one reason we missed the first 9/11. Now “very serious people” are making the same mistake with AI.

Emma Briant probes the public diplomacy implications of President Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in the middle of his trade confrontation with Canada.

Applying basic security principles would go a long way to fixing problems identified by Anthropic and OpenAI, writes Ciaran Martin

Keystroke replay, iris scans, and watermarks, all sold by the same people selling the AI. That's called a protection racket.

Anthropic says three Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to external systems during testing, raising fresh AI safety concerns.

A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college profes...

A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

My new AI research tool served me a stat I already believed. Here's what happened when I checked it anyway.

The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.

On authorship, authorization, and how 100% AI still ended up 100% mine. Spoiler: the trick was reading, writing, and editing like it's 1995.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to k…

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The U.S. government forcing Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable and Mythos models exemplifies the danger of allowing threat inflation and doom rhetoric to dominate public discourse.

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If you feel torn between genuine curiosity and deep concern about AI, all while admitting you don’t have all the answers, you might be a skeptical enthusiast like me.

The officer was “relieved for cause” due to disagreements over operations by the organization’s chief.

Human rights groups estimate more than 500 people have been killed and more than 10,600 arrested in the ongoing protests.