8 Best Cat Water Fountains, WIRED Tested and Reviewed (2025)
Ensuring your cat is drinking enough water is one of the best ways to keep your pet healthy. We tested popular models to find the best water fountains for most cats.
Is vibe coding ruining a generation of engineers?
AI tools are revolutionizing software development by automating repetitive tasks, refactoring bloated code, and identifying bugs in real-time. Developers can now generate well-structured code from plain language prompts, saving hours of manual effort. These tools learn from vast codebases, offering context-aware recommendations that enhance productivity and reduce errors. Rather than starting from scratch, engineers can …
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6 Best Carpet Cleaners (2025), Tested and Reviewed
Tackle stubborn stains, ground-in grime, and pesky pet hair with one of these WIRED-tested washers.
Together AI’s ATLAS adaptive speculator delivers 400% inference speedup by learning from workloads in real-time
Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can’t keep up with shifting workloads. Speculators are smaller AI models that work alongside large language models during inference. They draft multiple tokens ahead, which the main model then verifies in parallel. This technique (called speculative decoding) has become essential …
WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about one author’s journey to flee the US, social media surveillance, chatbots and the world of AI, and conspiracy theories for an autism cure.
Why GPS fails in cities. And how it was brilliantly fixed
Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections, wave analysis, and Google’s 3D building data for remarkable precision. Their method achieved accuracy within 10 centimeters during testing. The breakthrough could make reliable urban navigation accessible and affordable worldwide.
Size doesn’t matter: Just a small number of malicious files can corrupt LLMs of any size
Large language models (LLMs), which power sophisticated AI chatbots, are more vulnerable than previously thought. According to research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, it only takes 250 malicious documents to compromise even the largest models.
Echelon’s AI agents take aim at Accenture and Deloitte consulting models
Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, targeting a fundamental shift in how companies deploy and maintain critical business systems. The San Francisco-based company has developed AI agents specifically trained to handle end-to-end ServiceNow implementations — …
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Our Favorite Motorola Smartphone Is $100 Off
The impressive and unique Motorola Razr Ultra sees an appealing post-Prime Day discount.
New memory framework builds AI agents that can handle the real world’s unpredictability
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI Research have developed a framework that enables large language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into a memory bank, helping them get better at complex tasks over time. The framework, called ReasoningBank, distills “generalizable reasoning strategies” from an agent’s successful and failed attempts …
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