TSViPhoto/Shutterstock Scientists have crossed an important line in biological engineering. In a recent study, researchers used artificial intelligence to design complete sets of genetic instructions for bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Some of those computer-generated designs produced working viruses when they were built and tested in the laboratory. These viruses were designed to infect bacteria […]

Chinese AI companies such as Minimax made a big splash during the World AI Conference in Shanghai in July 2026. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating

When companies announce layoffs as a result of AI, they overlook the damaging effect on workers’ morale. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Business leaders and investors face a deepening paradox: Companies are pouring more money into artificial intelligence than ever, but they’re not seeing the gains in productivity that they expect. Even CEOs are starting to admit

Whether you’re looking for medical advice or tips on industrial agriculture, one thing is abundantly clear: never trust an AI chatbot without first getting a second opinion, preferably from a human who has actual expertise in the topic. That’s the takeaway from an incident in the small city of Chuzhou, China, after a large langue

Most enterprise AI transformation stories begin with the same ambition. Use AI to automate operations, improve forecasting, accelerate decision-making, and reduce the manual effort required to manage complex enterprise systems. In large SAP environments, however, those ambitions often depend on a more immediate challenge: moving the underlying application portfolio out of a retiring data center

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LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz hears your criticism loud and clear. That’s why he got his startup’s logo tattooed on his shoulder.

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.

Collaboration combines InfraPartners’ prefabricated AI data center solutions with Phaidra’s agentic technology to unlock greater productivity and speed across the design, build and operations of AI factories InfraPartners, a leader in prefabricated, fungible AI data center solutions, and Phaidra, a leading provider of AI agents for AI factories, today announced a partnership to integrate Phaidra’s AI