Data centers powering America's artificial intelligence boom are creating blue-collar jobs for electricians, mechanics and technicians, says Compass Datacenters CEO Chris Crosby.

Governments around the world have moved to ban these AI platforms from app stores. Governments around the world have moved to ban these AI platforms from app stores. US teens can access'nudify' apps despite Apple and Google's parental controls, report finds In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter's Pennsylvania high school was making AI-generated pornographic material using the daughter's image. He was using an artificial intelligence image-editing app called Movely to create sexual videos from pictures of her daughter and five other girls. What Dorfman's daughter experienced is not an anomaly: students in high schools across the US are reporting similar cases.

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then. Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the fraud-ridden blood-test company Theranos, made her national press debut in The Wall Street Journal in 2013. It ran in the Opinion section, by a writer on the Journal's editorial board named Joseph Rago, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for critiques of the Affordable Care Act. He wrote that he was impressed by the prospect of individuals having more direct control of their health care; no less an eminence than former secretary of state George Shultz, a Theranos board member, had told Rago that Holmes was the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. By 2014, Holmes was the youngest woman billionaire ever, and the mid-2010s were electric with tech-industry success stories--the iPhone, Tesla, Airbnb, Twitter.

They power our phones, cars, dishwashers--and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. "We don't have a rating scale for complexity, but rockets are maybe a five," an investor said. His partner added, "Semiconductors are an eleven." There are a handful of truly monumental collective achievements in our history: Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, and perhaps, if we're being generous, the Roman aqueducts. Modern global civilization has made one contribution to this eternal pantheon. It is not the moon landing. It is the semiconductor supply chain. A microchip is a bauble of metal and refined sand. It doesn't appear to have epic proportions. Upon close examination, however, the epic proportions are there in miniature. Imagine a perfect replica of a sprawling metropolis, a Tokyo or a São Paulo, engraved at atomic dimensions on a tile the size of a fingernail. The urban details would be faithfully rendered to the last golf ball or egg--each reduced to ...

The viral "Hotel Lobby" meme, which lets users inhabit the bodies of Quavo and Takeoff using A.I., resembles a kind of digital blackface, but also speaks to a technology that makes appropriation the default. When I first heard "Versace," the 2013 breakout single by the Atlanta trio Migos, it was like seeing a rainbow for the first time. The hook is just Quavo saying the word "Versace" over and over, saccadic and uninterrupted: "Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace!" It's not the repetition of the designer name itself that gives the song gravitas but how Quavo and his bandmates, Offset and Takeoff, accent and manipulate the word into eighth-note triplets. They didn't invent this style of vocal performance, but they did revolutionize its use in hip-hop and popular music, with everyone from Taylor Swift to Ariana Grande adopting iterations of what came to be known simply as the "Migos flow." In the years following "Versace," the group notched two No. 1 albums, tied a Beatles chart record, and set off multiple online trends.

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand. Daunt, the most important man in bookselling, maintains that a literary culture is something booksellers are well placed to build. It was the Friday before Labor Day, a lowering sun, when James Daunt, the most important man in bookselling, spilled off a train and turned to work. He had reached the end of the track in New Jersey. His destination, the Barnes & Noble in Eatontown, was three miles in from the shore. In the normal course of things, Daunt, who is tall and English and who often has the look of someone trying and failing to be invisible, would weave across the final stretch by bicycle--he has a folding Brompton--but the afternoon was muggy, and the traffic unkind, so he crammed into a rideshare car. On the map, Eatontown looked minuscule, but on the approach it unfurled: shopping mall ...

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Google's Deepmind "AlphaGo" AI is famous for winning at Go, but the company's latest Gemini AI just mastered a far more complex game. Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's final "Ender Dragon" foe with no human intervention by working individually while sharing tips, threats and mistakes, Google researchers revealed in a new paper. The experiment shows how general agentic AI models can now beat complex games, a feat that used to required custom AI software. To tackle Minecraft, the Gemini 4 team set four AI agents into a sandboxed, randomized Minecraft survival world with a goal to defeat the Ender Dragon. No roles, strategies or game-specific tools were assigned.

What do AI agents do if you don't tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies or . The agents--copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko--were able to write instructions that moved their virtual avatars around the simulated island, which was loosely based on the video game Roblox.

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