Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
…Musk also reposted Farrow’s story on Monday from his account. “Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate,” he wrote on X, referring to a line in the article about his nickname for…
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OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI is ready to target free users of its services with advertisements around the web, based on what it knows about them. On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out…
Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
…The company also claims to use Singapore-based servers to host international user data. Rednote did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. It’s incredibly challenging in the current regulatory…
Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing giant known for its role in building iPhones, revealed this week that it recently “suffered a cyberattack.” A ransomware group known as Nitrogen, claimed responsibility for the hack…
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…This week, I checked in with half a dozen users of OpenClaw in China about their experiences with the agent, and a clear picture of division emerged between the adopters who are…
Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
…Perplexity’s Comet browser agent reached just 2.8 million weekly active users in December 2025. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent reportedly fell to less than 1 million weekly active users in…
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
…Administrators must also explicitly enable the Android and iOS clients in the admin interface before eligible users can access the feature, which is off by default. End users then toggle encryption per…
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
…Malde tells WIRED that some leading AI coding products, such as Cursor, are already doing an early version of continual learning—using real data about how people interact with their products to…
Level Up Your Helicopter Cat Parenting With These Smart Health-Tracking Collars
…Fi Mini takes about two hours to reach a full charge and then lasts two to three weeks. Fi claims four weeks, but it never stretched that long for me. Still, that…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…Meta did not respond to questions about which users might be identifiable through NameTag; whether it intends for photos, faceprints, or other data generated by the system to ever be transmitted back…