US government wants to ban Chinese technology in submarine cables
New proposals look to secure subsea cables against foreign adversaries This includes a default denial…
Countess of Chester Hospital failed to tell man he was dying
Jonny HumphriesNorth West Handout William Chapman, known as Syd, believed he was going to fully recover Hospital doctors failed to tell a father-of-seven he was terminally ill and falsely reassured him he would recover, the health ombudsman has found. William Chapman, known as Syd, was told “not to worry” by doctors at the Countess of…
Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI
The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry’s biggest players doesn’t agree. At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei told editor at large Steven Levy that even though Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks may have tweeted that her company…
Families face 12-month wait to discover how their babies died
BBC Laura Tongue and Shane Bevan said delays were “cruel” for families at “their lowest point in grief” Grieving families are waiting up to a year to find out how children have died due to a shortage of pathologists. Among those who have faced a delay for post-mortem results are Shane Bevan and Laura Tongue,…
Jon M. Chu Says AI Couldn’t Have Made One of Wicked’s Best Moments
If there’s anyone who understands the importance of viral marketing, it’s Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu. At WIRED’s Big Interview event in San Francisco, the onetime YouTuber and Crazy Rich Asians director said that working with acts like Justin Bieber taught him the value of connecting with fans online during the creation process….
MND took our son Kyle aged 14
Leigh Boobyer,BBC Walesand John Maguire,Swansea Family handout Kyle Sieniawski, 14, is believed to be the youngest person in the UK to have died with motor neurone disease The family of a teenage boy who died after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has warned the rare, degenerative condition can hit “anybody at any age,…
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs can persuade people more effectively than political advertisements because they generate much more information in real time and strategically deploy it in conversations, he says. For…
AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown
Earlier this year, WIRED said that AMD CEO Lisa Su was “out for Nvidia’s blood.” The American chipmaker is still small compared to the juggernaut that is Nvidia—their market caps are $353 billion and $4.4 trillion, respectively—but Su’s company is gaining steam. Today, when Su took the stage at WIRED’s Big Interview conference in San…
ByteDance and DeepSeek Are Placing Very Different AI Bets
Go high or go wide? DeepSeek and ByteDance, the two leaders of China’s AI industry, are adopting vastly different strategies. On Monday, DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.2, another open-weight model that anyone can tinker with. The startup says it performs on par with the latest models from OpenAI and Google, and it even beats them on…
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NHS must take elderly infections much more seriously, Chris Whitty warns
Getty Images The NHS must take diseases like pneumonia and flu in older people much more seriously, England’s chief medical officer has warned. Sir Chris Whitty said some doctors do not appreciate that an infection can significantly increase the risk of a stroke or heart attack. His comments come as the number of flu patients…
