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Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Paramount Skydances sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

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A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.

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A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

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The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.

Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.

The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.

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More people are turning to AI to explore their BDSM fantasies, but some in the community feel its a cop-out.

The portable listening revolution is fully underway. From open earbuds to noise cancelers and wired headphones, I can find a reason to love them all.

For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.

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The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now hes joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

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Samsungs new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Googles Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Trump supporters are angry at the lack of arrests after the latest Epstein file dump but have targeted their ire at Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and Steve Bannon rather than the president.

Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies.

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