Wired.com AI
- by Lily Hay NewmanAs attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.
- by Boone AshworthA nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
- by Steven LevyThe search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
- by Chris Hamill-StewartHyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.
Wired.com Business
- by Louise MatsakisThe acquisition struck many people as a bizarre mismatch, but it's really a sign of where Chinese ecommerce giants are already going.
- by Steven LevyThe search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
- by Chris Hamill-StewartHyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.
- by Maxwell ZeffGlobal affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.
Music
- by Sam SodomskyEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the New York songwriter’s third LP, an album so painterly and poetic that it formed its own self-contained world.
- by Grayson Haver CurrinIn 1975, the Detroit singer self-released a perfect document of private-press folk. A rich new box set finally reveals more of his story in psychedelic sound.
- by Dash LewisDrawing heavily from Japanese kankyō ongaku, the Portland ambient duo explores mind-bending sound design and meditative states in a long-form piece at the nexus of the acoustic and the digital.
- by Arielle GordonAaron Maine’s latest collection is a pared-back, unpolished mixtape, recorded to his trusty four-track. The lack of digital refinement spotlights the songs’ unexpected rhymes and organic melodies.
- by Sam SodomskyWith an assist from MJ Lenderman, the New Orleans singer and poet fine-tunes his storytelling instincts against a backdrop of bracing heartland rock.
- by Lily GoldbergPaying tribute to a South Carolina town destroyed in the 1950s for a nuclear materials plant, the Durham avant-folk trio's disquieting new album is both a community service and a spiritual offering.
- by Eli EnisTied to a Supreme merch collab, this 31-track compilation from the chronically inactive witch-house group expands, celebrates, and slightly dampens the legacy of one of the last great millennial mysteries.