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Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users join...

The same lawyers handling a lawsuit over the infamous Hawk Tuah crypto coin are bringing a new class action against memecoin platform Pump.F...

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...

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.

Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren't expect...

The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of un...

A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into t...

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...

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 A...

Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and c...

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 landf...

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.

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 eco...

In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other...

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 sus...

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 disa...

This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.

Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.