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The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades

The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request. Voting records from...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand, you seem to agree that the companies...

US consumers faced more high prices in August as Iran war raised energy costs

US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices up, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor...

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models, he came to believe that he and everyone...

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED. Substantive...

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

Brian Barrett: Yes, please. Leah Feiger: All right, great. So the report claims that out of over 128 million voter records analyzed, roughly 24,000 were tied to noncitizen status. To be clear, 24,000...

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