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Discord reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork and has pinned its hopes on a debut in March.

VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into e-commerce startup Swap Commerce, which is going up against Shopify.

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products […]

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia's physical AI platform.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub’s corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.” Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.

New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.

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.

Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.

Like a lot of Breville's best devices, the Luxe Brewer combines technical sophistication with easy single-button operation.

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

The studio's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a "leveraged buyout" that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

Here’s everything that you should buy, skip, or splurge on for your at-home Pilates workout.

Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Based on years of testing with our cats, these are our favorite WIRED-approved, techy cat toys and furniture.

Read our live updates from CES 2026 in Las Vegas to see the latest consumer gadgetry in all of its chatbot-enabled, sensor-packed, AI-infused glory.

Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.