TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15," reports Reuters."Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself" — a free, open-source age verification smartphone app...

“I do see this as a continued trajectory of their main business model of controlling what people see, putting ads in front of them, and collecting more data,” Mir says.It’s definitely rational to be anxious about handing over your...

Every coral colony is cushioned by a thin boundary layer of water whose movement is slowed by friction at the coral’s surface. Researchers assumed that corals were passive with respect to the slow-moving boundary layer, simply relying on natural...

Not all employees of major firms working on artificial intelligence (AI) think the technology spells doom for humanity.In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for companies including OpenAI, Meta and DeepMind were sceptical of the idea...

The AI revolution at work may not be arriving quite as quickly as the headlines suggest. A new University of Konstanz study finds that just 38% of employees in Germany currently use AI as part of their work, up...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is changing the founder’s role from creating the work to exercising judgment over it.As execution becomes easier to automate, accountability, trust and discernment become even more valuable leadership skills.Women founders...

Welcome to the inaugural edition of 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...

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster believes OpenAI used his work to rush ahead and beat him to solving a legendary math problem with a $1 million bounty.But that’s not been enough for him to stop using the company’s models—and he’s not...

For more than a century, World’s Fairs have given people a first glimpse of what’s next: breakthroughs, ideas, and ways of living that would go on to reshape the everyday. WIRED will reimagine that tradition in Miami on November...

"Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News. Using Claude, "On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts," write researchers at...