Anthropic first gave us Claude Opus 4.6, then followed up with Claude Sonnet 4.6. For most purposes Sonnet 4.6 is not as capable as Opus 4.6, but it is not...
Citrini’s Scenario Is A Great But Deeply Flawed Thought Experiment
A viral essay from Citrini about how AI bullishness could be bearish was impactful enough for Bloomberg to give it partial responsibility for a decline in the stock market, and...
Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging
“The point is to get missions out the door as fast as possible. Two to three years is too slow.” Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy oversees the Space Force’s acquisition programs...
Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
Notably, one resident in Huddleston’s county who received an offer, 75-year-old Timothy Grosser, even declined a proposal to “name your price” when a tech company sought to buy his 250-acre...
Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
Panasonic, once revered for its plasma TVs, is giving up on making its own TV sets. Today, it announced that Chinese company Skyworth will take over manufacturing, marketing, and selling...
New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”
A gaming education Unlike Spencer, who spent years at Microsoft Game Studios before heading Microsoft’s gaming division, Sharma has no professional experience in the video game industry. And her personal...
The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade
ENCINITAS, Calif.—Its sales may have been buoyed of late by the big CX-90 and CX-70 SUVs, but for Mazda, the CX-5 is still where most of the action is. Unlike...
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
A US court last year found that Anthropic’s training of LLMs on some copyrighted content could be considered fair use as it was deemed “transformative.” But it determined that storing...
Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic
Prequel series is just great storytelling, reminding GoT fans why they loved the original so much. HBO has another critically acclaimed hit with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based...
The first cars bold enough to drive themselves
Quevedo’s telekino of 1904 was the first step on the road to autonomous Waymos. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images No one knows exactly when the vehicles we drive will...
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
Atmospheric scientist Laura Revell, with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, presented research showing that rocket exhaust in the atmosphere can erase some of the hard-won gains in mitigating...
NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
The helium system on the SLS upper stage—officially known as the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS)—performed well during both of the Artemis II countdown rehearsals. “Last evening, the team was...
Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary...
Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don’t work. Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer,...
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable...
After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon
A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ended Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence to move forward with plans to launch four astronauts around the Moon...
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video game efforts. Asha Sharma, an executive...
MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
“We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security. By expanding domestic production, we...
Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal
Last night, Tesla made some hefty cuts to Cybertruck pricing in an effort to stimulate some sales. The bombastic tri-motor “Cyberbeast” is $15,000 cheaper at $99,990, albeit by dropping some...
An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
“In both instances, this was user error, not AI error,” Amazon said, adding that it had not seen evidence that mistakes were more common with AI tools. The company said...
