The National Lottery in the UK will shut down this weekend to put through its biggest tech update in decades. National Lottery draw game sales and all prize claims will be temporarily paused in shops, on the website, and in the app between 11pm on Saturday, August 2 and... Read more

A new trailer for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was shown at the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase on Thursday — the first look we’ve had since its debut when the Nintendo Switch 2 was unveiled in April.  Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment will take place far in the past to explain... Read more

The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep up, we get it. That’s why WIRED is hosting its first AI Power Summit on September 15 in New York City. We’ve curated a series of panels and conversations... Read more

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have.  IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today... Read more

Betting giant Betfair is facing a AUD 871,660 ($566,348) penalty after sending messages to VIP customers that don’t comply with Australian spam laws. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has announced that it will be charging Betfair with the penalty for sending commercial messages that didn’t comply with national... Read more

61% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months) See more details New Tottenham boss Thomas Frank will get his first taste of north London’s eternal footballing rivalry as his Spurs team takes on Arsenal in this intriguing preseason friendly in Hong Kong on Thursday.  Below, we’ll outline the best live... Read more

This ain’t no orchestra and I’m not a conductor, but today we’ll be navigating the experience of the Crescendo 2. First, you may be wondering, “Ariana, what are you doing here?” My specialty lies in WIRED’s sleep-related content as a professional mattress tester and certified sleep science coach, not... Read more

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study by Anthropic shows that language models might learn hidden characteristics during distillation, a popular method for fine-tuning models for special... Read more

On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI for work tasks. Meanwhile, younger Americans are adopting AI tools at much higher... Read more

Technological advancements in artificial intelligence have changed how people interact with machines. The advances from scripted bots to conversational systems (to fully autonomous digital agents) occur in tandem with the inventions of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and reinforcement learning. Today, conversational systems utilize these same types of technologies... Read more