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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a phrase for how artificial intelligence gets built in America today: our risk, their reward. In WIRED's Big Interview podcast, recorded at City Hall ahead of the November midterms, the mayor laid out an unusually bl

The Apple Watch has spent most of its life looking inward, tracking heart rates and step counts instead of the world around it. With Audio Intelligence now entering beta testing, the watch starts listening outward - capturing snippets of real conversation

Cities drown in data and starve for action - and NVIDIA now wants agentic AI to close that gap. The company has gathered partners across Spain, Poland, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria and Taiwan to run resident-service agents, vision agents and digital twins d

Apple's App Store just reported its quietest quarter in years - and the most revealing one. On Monday's earnings call, CFO Kevan Parekh confirmed that App Store activity was roughly flat year over year, that U.S. commission revenue has reportedly fallen b

Google's Dreambeans experiment has left the nest. The app that quietly reads your Calendar, Gmail, Photos, Search history and YouTube feed to write illustrated stories about your own life is now live in India, its first market outside the United States, w

Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, spends somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 dollars a year on tokens for AI agents - not on software licences, but on the literal model tokens that power the agents he works with around the clock. The figure dropped on

Deep in the directory of AI developer tools, a new listing has quietly started turning heads. It is called Orion AI Factory, and it sells something every serious AI team is suddenly hungry for: sovereign GPU infrastructure that hosts, trains, and deploys

AI fine-tuning has quietly become the most common way organizations bend large language models to their own work - coding assistants, medical question answering, customer service. It is also one of the most wasteful steps in the entire model lifecycle, bu

The humanoid AI that finally carries a box across a room may have just taken its first practical step - without ever being shown the complete job. A research team at Seoul National University built RISE, a vision-language-action framework that learns walk

The Anthropic RSI warning hidden in a securities filing landed quietly on Monday, November 2, 2026, and it may be the most consequential paragraph of the year. Buried in the risk factors of its revised S-1A registration statement, the Claude maker concede