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Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

Election Deniers Think the Venezuela Attack Is All About 2020

Conspiracy theorists claim the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.

Venezuela Is the First Big Test for the Pentagon’s Influencer Press Corps—and It's Failing

Mainstream reporters are out at the Pentagon, and right-wing influencers are in. The results are predictable, and oddly reminiscent of Iraq War–era warblogging.

New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park

CES Live Blog, Day 3: Even More of the Coolest Tech We’ve Seen

What’s Going on With Smart Rings?

The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Are 50ドル Off

Breville's New Coffee Brewer Makes Great Drip and Cold Brew—With Some Quirks

Everything You Need to Practice Pilates at Home

The Best Cat Toys for Your Furry Friend

Lenovo’s New Gaming Laptop Goes Ultrawide at the Press of a Key

Lenovo brought a Legion gaming laptop to CES this year with a rollable OLED display that expands horizontally by six inches.

The Razr Fold Adds a Book-Style Foldable to Motorola’s Lineup

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV

The Newest Health Trend Is Tracking Your Pee

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump’s Retro Coup in Venezuela

This weekend’s invasion was both a throwback to the last century and a new, uniquely Trumpian nightmare—one that’s just beginning.

Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful

DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.

6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026

The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics

OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025

From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.

AI of a Thousand Faces

All Hail the Technocracy

WIRED Takes You Back to School

The New Era of Work Travel

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

Originally published July 2021: From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future.

The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe!