Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop
A surge of AI-generated content is frustrating Pinterest users and left some questioning whether the platform still works at all.
Category: Technology
AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.
Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.
OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.
People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids
Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.
How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year
The billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE had deep impacts on Tesla’s bottom line. But Elon Musk was still able to turn his attention to SpaceX.
Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back
Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future.
Data Mining
TL;DR Data mining is the practice of discovering useful patterns, trends, and insights hidden within large collections of data. Data mining is a foundational concept in data science and artificial intelligence, focused on extracting meaningful information from large and complex datasets. As organizations generate enormous volumes of data from digital systems, sensors, transactions, and user…
Unicorn
TL;DR In technology and startups, a unicorn is a privately held company valued at over one billion dollars. The term “unicorn” is commonly used in the technology and startup world to describe companies that achieve extraordinary valuations before going public. Originally coined to highlight how rare such companies were, the term has become a standard…
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)
TL;DR A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is an AI technique where two neural networks compete against each other to generate realistic new data. A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a powerful machine learning framework for generating new data that closely resembles real examples. Introduced as a breakthrough in generative modeling, GANs work by pitting two…