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Joel Khalili Business Mar 2, 2026 5:00 AM The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. Photograph: Martin Zwick/Getty Images Save Story Save this story Save …

Maxwell ZeffWill KnightLauren GoodeParesh Dave Business Feb 27, 2026 10:30 PM Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down. Photograph: …

Lily Hay Newman Security Feb 26, 2026 3:54 PM This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty Images Save Story …

Zeyi Yang Business Feb 26, 2026 3:08 PM How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this …

Maxwell Zeff Business Feb 26, 2026 2:00 PM Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era? Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Comment Loader …

Joel Khalili Business Feb 26, 2026 10:56 AM OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAIPhotograph: Bloomberg/Getty …

Kate Knibbs Business Feb 25, 2026 11:00 AM Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies. Photograph: Getty Images …

Michael Pollan The Big Story Feb 24, 2026 6:00 AM AI Will Never Be Conscious In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Save Story Save this story Save Story Save …

Brian BarrettZoë SchifferLeah Feiger Business Feb 23, 2026 2:28 PM Uncanny Valley: AI Researcher Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, and Evie Magazine’s Party This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a …

Jane Ruffino The Big Story Feb 23, 2026 6:00 AM Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks. ILLUSTRATION: ROB …