Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Leaders from across the tech sector, academia, and beyond gathered to explore how to implement responsible AI and ensure safeguarding while fostering innovation, at a roundtable convened by TIME in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 21. In a wide-ranging conversation, participants in the roundtable, hosted by TIME CEO Jess Sibley, discussed topics including the impact of AI on children's development and safety, how to regulate the technology, and how to better train models to ensure they don't harm humans. Discussing the safety of children, Jonathan Haidt, professor of ethical leadership at NYU Stern and author of said that parents shouldn't focus on restricting their child's exposure entirely but on the habits they form.

Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Leaders from Dow Chemical Company, EY, and NTT Data Inc. shared their perspectives on the impact of scaling up new technologies like AI during a TIME100 Talks panel discussion in Davos on Jan. 20. The panel took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, which kicked off on Jan. 19 in Davos, drawing around 3,000 high-level participants from business, government, and beyond, in addition to many more observers, journalists, activists, and others. During the panel, titled "Innovation in a Multipolar Era," the participants discussed the benefits of integrating AI, and its potential in areas such as health care and education, as well as some of the challenges of integrating the technology at scale within businesses.

Buying Warner Bros. Gives Netflix What It's Always Needed: An Identity The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century's worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to . It also ends the streaming wars. In a deal to acquire Warner Bros. announced Friday, Netflix will be scooping up HBO's many titles, including Courtesy of HBO Close your eyes, think for a minute, and tell me: What is a Netflix Movie? OK, try again: What is a Netflix Show? Sure, it's easy to rattle off some killer titles--, --but Netflix has never really had a brand identity.

Lisa Su leads Nvidia's biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED's Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, the company's CEO said "Emphatically, from my perspective, no." Earlier this year, WIRED said that AMD CEO Lisa Su was " out for Nvidia's blood ." The American chipmaker is still small compared to the juggernaut that is Nvidia--their market caps are $353 billion and $4.4 trillion, respectively--but Su's company is gaining steam. Today, when Su took the stage at WIRED's Big Interview conference in San Francisco, she had something else in her sights: the AI bubble .

Plus: The SEC lets SolarWinds off the hook, Microsoft stops a historic DDoS attack, and FBI documents reveal the agency spied on an immigration activist Signal group in New York City. Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another team of researchers found that they could still do exactly that using a similar technique. The issue stems from WhatsApp's discovery feature, which allows someone to enter a person's phone number to see if they're on the app. By doing this billions of times--which WhatsApp did not prevent--researchers from the University of Vienna uncovered what they're calling "the most extensive exposure of phone numbers" ever . Vaping is a major problem in US high schools.

The'Great Meme Reset' Is Coming From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Memes are getting a reboot. The Great Meme Reset of 2026, as it's being called on TikTok, demands that on January 1 all memes revert to their 2010s glory days. Bland " brain rot " and AI -looking memes are out; Big Chungus is in.

Guillermo del Toro Hopes He's Dead Before AI Art Goes Mainstream The director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros. Guillermo del Toro attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix's during the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Guillermo del Toro loves a challenge. Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed "half-assed," and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in, his adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes--as well as some embellishing of Shelley's story--could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.

Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Javed is a senior editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. How do you see your clients adopting AI and grappling with the rapid changes it is bringing? CEOs have identified that AI is simple to try and hard to scale, and that's why they come to Accenture. And you can see that in the explosive growth of our advanced AI practice over the past couple of years.

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee's jokes. Stop me if you've heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she's not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best way to talk about STEM is to make jokes at its expense. Based in London, the comedian had a strong interest in science as a kid, but after attending the University of Brighton to study chemistry, she realized that she liked learning science more than she liked applying it. Her thesis dissertation--"Synthesis of Iron Nitroxide radical species using radical derivatized ligands and its use as a single-molecule magnet"--flopped.

The latest film in the franchise seems to have not learned any lessons from sci-fi movies past--or from current reality. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about, started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized the tech bro who made him might be a hack.