Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Donald Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’

Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI

The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”

These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.