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July 16, 2026
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.
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July 13, 2026
Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.
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July 7, 2026
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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July 7, 2026
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.
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July 2, 2026
How Big Is ‘Love Island USA’? More Than 10 Million People Are Already on Its App
“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer.
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July 2, 2026
I Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon
I ripped open $892 worth of Pokémon packs on my phone in under 15 minutes and walked away with 62 cents. My adrenaline rush felt like the future of gambling.
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June 29, 2026
Usernames Are Coming to WhatsApp Soon. Here's How to Reserve Yours
Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number.
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June 24, 2026
How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.
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June 20, 2026
Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant
The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.
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June 16, 2026
TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to “Surprise Sets” livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
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June 8, 2026
Apple’s New Siri AI Is Ready to Get Personal
From a standalone app to a Google Gemini partnership, here’s everything you need to know from WWDC 2026 about Apple’s upcoming overhaul of Siri.
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June 2, 2026
Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
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May 29, 2026
Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.
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May 28, 2026
Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook
Meta’s upcoming Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus subscriptions are the latest example of the company seeing what works elsewhere and mimicking it.
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May 26, 2026
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.
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May 26, 2026
I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.
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May 21, 2026
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.
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May 19, 2026
Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.
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May 19, 2026
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.
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May 19, 2026
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
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May 13, 2026
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
Instagram’s Instants app lets you send disappearing photos—and it’s probably where your horny friends will post spicy pics.
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May 13, 2026
Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?
Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.
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May 11, 2026
Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android
As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.
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May 6, 2026
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?
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May 6, 2026
Zest Maps Is the AI-Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
This new app tracks every time you swipe your card at a cool restaurant—and tells all your friends.
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May 1, 2026
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.
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April 28, 2026
The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.
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April 27, 2026
Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal
Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social media platform.
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April 24, 2026
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical.
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April 21, 2026
OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model
The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.
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