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As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.

DOGE tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous “Fork in the Road” email.

When Anthropic's older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

Ahead of her new album and tour, pop titan Kesha says she wants to start a new platform called Smash that helps artists connect, collaborate, and collectively heal the wounds of the past.

Whether you’re snoozing in a campground or have family visiting for the holidays, these are the best sleeping pads and camping mats we’ve found to rest your weary bones.

Feeling the pull of a clean machine? We’ll help you make sense of Dyson’s whirlwind vacuum lineup.

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

Our team evaluated a ton of toiletry bags to find the best storage, organization, and design options for all your essentials.

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

The trove has now been taken down but included users’ logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta, plus services from multiple governments.

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

Dyson’s newest cordless vacuum, which won’t be available in the US until next year, is its thinnest yet with an all-new motor.

I’m a side sleeper, and I tested 50 of the top hybrid, memory foam, and cooling mattresses to find the best combination of support and pressure relief.

The Enhanced Games, where athletes are allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs, will host its first event in May. One “enhanced” former Olympic swimmer has already broken the 50-meter freestyle record.

Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

Android is getting a design refresh, launching a mixed reality platform for smart glasses, and Gemini is expanding to cars and watches. Can it entice the overwhelmingly dominant iPhone-owning youth?

Mark Brown, who posts game explainers to his Game Maker’s Toolkit channel, says his persona has been plagiarized.

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.

US, European, and Japanese authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma, an infostealer popular with criminal gangs.