Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok....
The same lawyers handling a lawsuit over the infamous Hawk Tuah crypto coin are bringing a new class action against memecoin platform Pump.Fun for allegedly putting investors in high financial risk....
It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms....
The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went....
Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate....
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found....
The incoming president of the United States is also a social media mogul. We’re keeping a running tally of his stake in Truth Social—and how his fortunes change with its ups and downs....
The incoming president of the United States is also a social media mogul. We’re keeping a running tally of his stake in Truth Social—and how his fortunes change with its ups and downs....
Crypto execs funneled millions in donations to swing this election, and now their man is in charge. Here’s how Donald Trump’s “crypto cabinet” could shape the next four years....
Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren't expecting many forced relocations....
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences....
A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes....
Pump.Fun raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in its first year in operation. Despite some growing pains, its creators say this is just the beginning....
Pump.Fun raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in its first year in operation. Despite some growing pains, its creators say this is just the beginning....
Less than a week before Donald Trump takes office, the SEC has filed a complaint against his most prominent benefactor....
Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it....
Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions....
A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade....
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely....
The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations....
AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time....
From tunnels to Tesla factories to SpaceX launch facilities, there’s barely a place on Earth that doesn’t feel the gravitational pull of humanity’s wealthiest reply guy....
The holders of the vast majority of the world’s wealth? Men. So many men—from Trump and Musk and Putin to every CEO, crypto schmo, and solar bro in between....
AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time....
So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem....
In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars....
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn....
Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects....
The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast....
This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy....