Wired.com AI
- by Reece RogersApple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.
- by Isabella WardResearchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
- by Maxwell ZeffJohannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
- by Maxwell ZeffThe iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
Wired.com Business
- by Sheon HanBy some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular programming language.
- by Maxwell ZeffJohannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
- by Molly TaftData centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution.
- by Maxwell ZeffThe iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
Music
- by Sadie Sartini GarnerThe duo’s latest collaborative album is spacious and open-hearted and surprising: a set of patiently constructed terrariums you have to walk around in to fully experience.
- by Stephen Thomas ErlewineArmed with a powerhouse voice evocative of soul music’s greats, the singer-songwriter explores the many facets of longing on an album that bridges the genre’s past and future.
- by Grace Robins-SomervilleSadie Dupuis packs flash memoir and activist messages into the busy, bite-sized compositions on her new solo record.
- by Jayson GreeneThe Philadelphia-based experimental percussionist returns with another set of dense, antic tracks that seesaw between being crowd-pleasing and purposefully unsettling.
- by Stuart BermanOn their second new album in recent years, the Stones find a funkier, more robust rhythm in the Hackney Diamonds overflow.
- by David GlickmanThe third album from the Montreal trio breaks free with restless energy and earnest, worldweary songwriting.
- by Dash LewisThe London saxophonist and his ensemble fuse jazz with diverse strains of global trance music—Moroccan gnawa, Berlin kosmische—into a hypnotic, utopian expression of spiritual union.