OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”...
27 agosto, 2026
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself. ...
27 agosto, 2026
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work....
27 agosto, 2026
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box....
27 agosto, 2026
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory....
27 agosto, 2026
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet....
27 agosto, 2026
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249....
27 agosto, 2026
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers....
27 agosto, 2026
Submit Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash
You have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know....
27 agosto, 2026
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business....
27 agosto, 2026
The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance....
27 agosto, 2026
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns....
26 agosto, 2026
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips....
26 agosto, 2026
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak....
26 agosto, 2026
The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should demanded more....
26 agosto, 2026
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture....
26 agosto, 2026
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?...
26 agosto, 2026
OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming....
26 agosto, 2026
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date....
26 agosto, 2026
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem....
26 agosto, 2026
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP....
26 agosto, 2026
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence....
26 agosto, 2026
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before....
26 agosto, 2026
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon....
26 agosto, 2026
Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement....
26 agosto, 2026
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up....
26 agosto, 2026
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent....
26 agosto, 2026
Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel....
26 agosto, 2026
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames....
26 agosto, 2026
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers....
26 agosto, 2026
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