TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

AI researchers, experts and bosses worried about the technology's potential to endanger humanity have outlined unsettling scenarios.Dario Amodei wrote in September, external it had advanced "drastically faster" than expected, including in its "ability to build the next generation of...

I have never spent a dollar on TikTok ads.I wrote this post while working out whether I should. My paid budget goes to Facebook Lead Ads, TikTok keeps coming up, and at some point “I should look into that”...

Almost 150 politicians across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography websites over the last few years, according to new research seen by WIRED. Some of the politicians, who are overwhelmingly women, have had their likeness included in...

The next scam call you receive may not sound like a robot, a call center, or even someone pretending to be your relative. AI voice generators have become capable of reproducing regional accents and dialects that sound convincing enough...

A misconfigured Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database linked to Vietnam exposed more than 220 million passenger and crew travel records spanning 2017 to 2026, including names, passport numbers, nationalities, flight details, seat assignments, and baggage references. Researchers...

NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model trained on a large collection of lunar observations to help scientists analyze the Moon at scale. "The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model gives scientists a foundation to explore the Moon...

"I won't lie to you – there are real dangers," said Anthropic CEO and cofounder Dario Amodei about the development of artificial intelligence. "And I think for too long the...

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email...

America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that "the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money"...

An AI researcher who quit Anthropic told the BBC that people working on the technology are "genuinely frightened" about the speed of its advancements and what it could mean for humanity.Jacob Coxon spoke with BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Saturday...