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This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. Here’s what to expect.

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

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El Niño coupled with Saharan dust is making this year’s hurricane season a dud. But there’s still potential for dangerous storms.

A combination of El Niño, unusually hot ocean waters, and jet stream changes is sending temperatures soaring in the US, Europe, and Asia.

More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.

Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

Japan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.