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OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
Public Health
There’s New Hope for an HIV Vaccine
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Twitter Is Finally Dead
Parasocial Studies
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.
Flux Capacitor
The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean
Tip of the Iceberg
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
Reviews and Buying Guides
Buying Guide
The Best Cheap Phones for Almost Every Budget
There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing.
Buying Guide
Which Nanoleaf Smart Lights Should You Buy?
Product Review
The Artiphon Chorda Can Help Anyone Make Decent Music
Buying Guide
The Best iPad to Buy (and a Few to Avoid)
Going Viral
TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface
Originally published August 2020: On the app, users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture—and steal the viral spotlight. It’s exploitation at its most refined and disturbing.
We ❤️ Hardware
‘You Must Believe You Can Repair It’
Hip Hop's 50th
Hip Hop 2073: A Vision of the Future, 50 Years From Now
Trending Stories
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Backchannel
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.
Security
Welcome to the Laser Wars
Amid a rising tide of adversary drones and missile attacks, laser weapons are finally poised to enter the battlefield.
Business
It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It
Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search. One expert tells WIRED it’s “a change in the world order.”
Gear
With OpenAI’s Release of GPT-4o, Is ChatGPT Plus Still Worth It?
While the newest AI model from OpenAI, GPT-4o, is available to users for free, ChatGPT Plus subscribers still get access to more prompts and the newest features.
