Tech & Ai

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky

This past winter, Plantaform’s new smart indoor garden arrived at my Brooklyn home. I was excited at the prospect of growing heads of leafy green lettuce, channeling my inner...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Trump says he’s found a buyer for TikTok

A group of “very wealthy people” is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump. “We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,” Trump...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for June 29: Tips to solve Connections #279

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

23 Best Power Banks (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Other Portable Chargers We Tested Photograph: Simon Hill There are so many portable chargers out there. Here are a few more we like that just missed out on a...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents Anthropic’s “Project Vend.” Researchers at...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

The biggest AI announcements and high drama of 2025 (so far)

Trust us, if we tried to create a full rundown of all the AI news since January 2025, this wouldn’t be a list — it would be a book....

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Previously known as Worldcoin, World was created...

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

What’s new with Claude 4? And why it’s becoming my favorite AI tool

ChatGPT is the most famous AI chat service by far, but that doesn’t automatically make it the best. Google Gemini is consistently topping leaderboards, and don’t count out Claude....

June 29, 2025
Abigail Avery
Tech & Ai

Best Kindle Accessories (2025): Kindle Cases, Straps, Charms

You could get a case with a cover, but if you’re like us here at WIRED, you like seeing the book cover and might prefer a cover-free case. But...