Making a publishable video no longer requires a full crew, a suite of desktop NLEs, and a week of versioning. AI can now take a brief, a product still, or a script and return motion in minutes. The bottleneck moved. It is no longer “Can we generate a clip?” It is “Can the tool carry […]

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

New A3 data shows second-quarter growth across semiconductors/electronics, automotive components, food and consumer goods, metals and life sciences North American companies ordered 8,940 robots valued at $622 million in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data released by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Compared to the second quarter of 2025, this represents […]

AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.

LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz hears your criticism loud and clear. That’s why he got his startup’s logo tattooed on his shoulder.

Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

“Remember that the guests remember moments, not agendas,” a producer told me years ago, squinting at a half-built stage. That’s the thing about corporate events: people don’t walk out quoting slide 17. They walk out remembering the music cue that gave them chills, the CEO who felt unexpectedly human, the way the room itself seemed […]

B2B sales teams have always searched for better ways to find potential customers. In the past, salespeople relied on large contact lists and manual research to discover new opportunities. Today, the market changes faster than ever. Companies need more than static databases. They need real-time insights, accurate prospects, and smarter ways to connect with the […]

An AI interview is increasingly the first step of a hiring process. Since there’s no human on the other end, candidates are scheduling them whenever—even deep into the night.

Chinese robotics company Unitree has priced its initial public offering at a valuation of approximately $9 billion, becoming the country’s first mainland-listed humanoid robot manufacturer and highlighting growing investor interest in AI-powered robotics despite rising geopolitical tensions. The Hangzhou-based company said it has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan ($22.34) per share, […]

Analog Devices has renewed its commitment as a strategic sponsor of MassRobotics, the Boston-based robotics accelerator. Central to this partnership is Analog Garage, ADI’s internal corporate venture and incubator group. Analog Garage functions as a cutting-edge emerging technology hub, pairing ADI’s deep technical expertise with seed funding and engineering resources to turn disruptive ideas into […]

WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the “strange moment” we’re in.

Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.

The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people who have no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.

Every founder knows the feeling. The company that ran beautifully at thirty people starts to creak at a hundred, and by three hundred it feels like the wheels are coming off. Nowhere is that strain more visible than in people operations. The informal, everyone-knows-everyone approach to skills, roles and development that worked in the early […]