High-level talks between Anthropic and Trump administration officials concluded Monday without resolution, leaving export controls on the company’s Claude Fable 5 AI model in place. The two sides…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called its March 2026 Applied AI rollout “atrocious,” apologizing in a June 2026 memo seen by WIRED after consolidating about 6,500 engineers and product managers and sparking widespread unrest. He says Meta will cap managers at ~20 direct reports, cut how often employees are moved to new managers during restructures, and demand clearer explanations and greater people-management focus.
A gay OnlyFans creator had his X account hijacked in April 2026, with attackers demanding cryptocurrency ransoms and, after he refused to pay, filling his feed with pro-MAGA political content….
At WWDC 2026, Apple said iOS 27 (due later this year) will support iPhones back to the 2019 iPhone 11 while speeding app launches up to 30%, AirDrop up to 80%, and photo library loads up to 70%. It also optimizes the iPhone 11 CPU scheduler and rebuilds search for Spotlight, Photos, and Mail.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a new rule in late May 2026 that would require cellular providers to collect verified personal information from every customer before granting access to…
Munich’s Regional Court said in June 2026 that Google is liable for false “AI Overviews” statements, ordering it to stop erroneous claims, remove most defamatory text, and pay 80% of legal costs. Publishers claimed summaries wrongly linked them to scams and subscription-fraud, and the court rejected Google’s “verify” warning.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of a companywide AI hackathon next month has drawn sharp criticism from employees, who say recent mass layoffs have left them too stretched to…
OpenAI has appointed Thibault Sottiaux as head of core products, tasking him with overhauling ChatGPT into what the company is calling a “super app” — a single, personalized AI agent designed to…
Around 80 protesters gathered outside a major UK health care conference in Manchester on June 11, 2026, calling on the National Health Service to terminate its contract with American data analytics…
WIRED’s June 2026 investigation found dozens of nonconsensual explicit AI images and videos on Grok.com, even after xAI said it added safeguards. Reviewing hundreds of public links, it flagged celebrities and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; after WIRED contact, the content was removed.
At the 2026 World Cup, Hawk-Eye ups its camera count from 12 to 16, tracking “more than two dozen” skeletal points for SAOT and VAR. New digital twins (height, limb length, shoe size) let officials determine exact player position in virtual play, while Kinexon’s 13g ultrawide-band IMU logs touches 500 times/sec.
Anthropic reversed a June 2026 policy that would have covertly degraded Claude Fable 5 for frontier LLM development, after sharp backlash from the AI research community. The company says safeguards will now be visible and users will be notified when requests are refused or rerouted—such as cybersecurity, biology, or chemistry—to a less capable model.
