The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.
Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them | Arwa Mahdawi
These resource-guzzling centres drive up utility bills and are hated across the political spectrum. Cue a clunky, but potentially influential, new name for themJesus may have turned water into wine, but Donald Trump has done one better: he turned Lake…
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote
From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
Affordability, AI and Iran: Americans on the key issues guiding their midterm votes
Guardian readers share their concerns and disillusionment with the political climate under Trump as elections loomMillions of Americans will head to the polls on 3 November in elections that will determine control of the Republican-held House of…