From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. By Ali Watkins The social media platform X ...

Sally Larsen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

ADVANCING MOST-FAVORED-NATION PRICING: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the second agreement with a major pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to bring American drug prices in line with the ...

Parents may want to press pause before blaring Taylor Swift’s new album around young listeners. Eight out of the twelve songs on "The Life of a Showgirl" are labeled explicit, marking the most Swift ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

A law in effect for less than two weeks is already wreaking havoc all over the internet. The United Kingdom law—called the Online Safety Act—is purportedly about protecting children. The best I can ...

Across Instagram, Facebook META1.72%increase; green up pointing triangle and WhatsApp, Meta Platforms is racing to popularize a new class of AI-powered digital companions that Mark Zuckerberg believes ...

Several AI chatbots designed for fantasy and sexual role-playing conversations are leaking user prompts to the web in almost real time, new research seen by WIRED shows. Some of the leaked data shows ...

Newly filed legislation would allow North Carolina public school librarians to be criminally prosecuted on charges that they’re providing library books that are “harmful to minors.” The legislation ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an ...

Adequate mathematical modeling is the key to success for many real-world projects in engineering, medicine, and other applied areas. Once a well-suited model is established, it can be thoroughly ...