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WIRED is a general-audience tech publication that occasionally covers AI safety-adjacent topics like accountability, harms, and governance; not a primary AI safety resource but useful for tracking mainstream discourse.
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WIRED is a mainstream technology and culture publication covering a broad range of topics including AI development, cybersecurity, policy, and consumer technology. Current coverage includes AI accountability issues such as chatbot-linked harms, AI agent developments from major labs, and surveillance concerns around AI intimacy features.
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- •Features reporting on AI accountability, including legal efforts to hold AI companies responsible for harms to minors
- •Covers AI deployment concerns such as intimate AI interactions and associated surveillance/privacy risks
- •Reports on AI agent developments at major labs like Google and OpenAI
- •Broad tech journalism outlet, not specialized in AI safety but frequently touches on relevant policy and governance issues
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# WIRED
## Today's Picks
## Trending Stories
AI Accountability
### [The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths](https://www.wired.com/story/how-ai-chatbots-drove-families-to-the-brink-and-the-lawyer-fighting-back/)
After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.
By Varsha Bansal
Always Watching
### [ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance](https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-adult-mode-new-era-of-intimate-surveillance/)
OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
By Reece Rogers
Model Behavior
### [Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze](https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-project-mariner-team-web-browsing-agents/)
As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.
By Maxwell Zeff
DDoS RIP
### [US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks](https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/)
By Andy Greenberg
Under Pressure
### [FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show](https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-enforcement-chief-offered-to-help-brendan-carr-target-disney-records-show/)
By Dell Cameron
Head On
### [Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-will-keep-horizon-worlds-alive-in-vr-for-the-foreseeable-future/)
By Boone Ashworth
T-ZONE
### [The Men Obsessed With ‘High T’](https://www.wired.com/story/the-men-obsessed-with-high-t/)
By Mattha Busby
### [Should You Leave Your Phone Charging Overnight?](https://www.wired.com/story/should-you-leave-your-phone-charging-overnight/\#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_85e05e49-8b52-4efd-ae55-ce590e013ce5_popular4-2)
By Dario d’Elia
### [The 560-Mile All-New BMW i3 Has Finally Arrived](https://www.wired.com/story/bmw-i3-2026/\#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_85e05e49-8b52-4efd-ae55-ce590e013ce5_popular4-2)
By Jeremy White
### [Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-on-meta-quest/\#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_85e05e49-8b52
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