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Lily Hay Newman Matt Burgess Security The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began. Photo-Illus... See more

Will Knight Business Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks. Photo-illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images For the past few days I've been testing an impressive open-weight AI coding model called Flint. It su... See more

Business AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Last week, I attended a talk at MIT by Neil Thompson, who ... See more

Ben Gartside AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain's spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty Images Rep... See more

Long before the storm of AI struck Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation was making preparations. Wikipedians battened down the hatches and made confident-sounding predictions that it would break and wash over them. Large language models might even improve ... See more