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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator

2025-09-17 13:53:12                wired.com

The Nvidia CEO reveals his consuming love for Google’s image generator, the artsy side of Grok, and what exactly he uses Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT for right now.

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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push

2025-09-16 21:30:00                wired.com

Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion in the UK during US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

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OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

2025-09-16 20:53:52                wired.com

CEO Sam Altman announced an age-prediction system and new parental controls in a blog post on Tuesday.

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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

2025-09-16 10:00:00                wired.com

The Cloudflare CEO joined The Big Interview to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet’s potential futures, and his company's relationship to Trump.

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How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

2025-09-15 21:54:25                wired.com

At WIRED’s AI Power Summit on Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.

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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

2025-09-15 16:42:59                wired.com

Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

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USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

2025-09-15 16:01:46                wired.com

DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.

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OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

2025-09-15 10:00:00                wired.com

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

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Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)

2025-09-13 02:35:01                wired.com

Lauren Goode / Wired: Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”  —  Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases …

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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

2025-09-12 15:00:00                wired.com

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.

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How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate

2025-09-11 19:59:28                wired.com

A series of corporate leaks show that Chinese technology companies function far more like their Western peers than one might imagine.

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Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World

2025-09-11 18:16:21                wired.com

Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

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Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware companies nearly tripled in 2024 to 31, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)

2025-09-11 02:35:02                wired.com

Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired: Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware companies nearly tripled in 2024 to 31, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors  —  A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

2025-09-10 18:04:13                wired.com

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

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Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit

2025-09-10 13:00:00                wired.com

On September 15, WIRED is gathering a panel of leaders across technology, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI.

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Livestream: Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit

2025-09-10 13:00:00                wired.com

WIRED is gathering a panel of leaders across technology, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI.

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: WIRED’s AI Power Summit

2025-09-10 13:00:00                wired.com

WIRED gathered a panel of leaders across technology, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI.

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Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

2025-09-10 03:30:00                wired.com

Missed Uncanny Valley’s first live show? We spoke with special guest Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, in San Francisco.

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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

2025-09-09 16:00:00                wired.com

At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

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The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

2025-09-09 12:33:44                wired.com

K2 Think compares well with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek but is smaller and more efficient, say researchers based in Abu Dhabi.

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Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)

2025-09-09 04:15:13                wired.com

Wired: Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy  —  The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

2025-09-07 10:00:00                wired.com

Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics.

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Where's the Fun in AI Gambling?

2025-09-06 10:00:00                wired.com

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down the role of AI in the online gambling scene.

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

2025-09-05 19:14:28                wired.com

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

2025-09-05 15:08:21                wired.com

Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.

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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and "emergent skills" in humanoid robots (Will Knight/Wired)

2025-09-05 09:01:39                wired.com

Will Knight / Wired: Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots  —  Atlas, Boston Dynamics' dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

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Should AI Get Legal Rights?

2025-09-04 19:05:56                wired.com

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

2025-09-04 18:47:28                wired.com

The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.

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The Unexpected Winners of Trump’s Trade War

2025-09-04 15:19:35                wired.com

Americans are now hit with tariffs when they shop from overseas sellers on eBay and Etsy. Shein and Temu had months to get ahead of the curve.

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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

2025-09-03 18:00:00                wired.com

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

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The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight

2025-09-03 11:00:00                wired.com

The GENIUS Act barred stablecoin issuers from paying interest. But in allowing cryptocurrency exchanges to offer rewards, it set off a high-stakes clash with the US banking industry.

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Remarkable Paper Pro Move review: the new $449 digital notepad has a spacious 7.3" color E Ink display and slim design, but it is not ideal for lengthy notes (Nena Farrell/Wired)

2025-09-03 09:15:00                wired.com

Nena Farrell / Wired: Remarkable Paper Pro Move review: the new $449 digital notepad has a spacious 7.3" color E Ink display and slim design, but it is not ideal for lengthy notes  —  This miniaturized version of ReMarkable's colorful Paper Pro might just be my new favorite digital notepad.  —  Rating: … I love a list.

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Join Us for WIRED’s “Uncanny Valley” Live

2025-09-02 21:22:12                wired.com

Get your tickets to Uncanny Valley’s first live show in San Francisco on September 9, featuring special guest Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.

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Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents

2025-09-02 10:00:00                wired.com

Online gambling is a massive industry. The AI boom keeps booming. It was only a matter of time before people tried to put them together.

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Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

2025-09-01 11:00:00                wired.com

WIRED talks to the director of the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence about Latam-GPT, the large-language model that aims to address the region’s specific needs and change the current technological dynamic.

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WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain

2025-09-01 10:00:00                wired.com

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week's biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta's new superintelligence lab, to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers.

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A new policy document from seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)

2025-08-31 18:10:00                wired.com

Emily Mullin / Wired: A new policy document from seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030  —  A new policy document outlines China's plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years …

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

2025-08-31 10:00:00                wired.com

The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans.

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Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)

2025-08-30 14:20:01                wired.com

David Gilbert / Wired: Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident  —  WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

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Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI "ASAP" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

2025-08-29 10:10:03                wired.com

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI “ASAP”  —  A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer.  Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

2025-08-28 15:26:05                wired.com

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

2025-08-28 15:00:00                wired.com

In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.

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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

2025-08-27 12:36:43                wired.com

Cybercriminals are increasingly using generative AI tools to fuel their attacks, with new research finding instances of AI being used to develop ransomware.

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Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

2025-08-27 05:50:02                wired.com

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta  —  CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta.  WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

2025-08-26 19:31:59                wired.com

Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

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Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

2025-08-26 18:00:37                wired.com

CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

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Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

2025-08-26 09:00:00                wired.com

The Reddit cofounder joins WIRED’s “Uncanny Valley” podcast and opens up about his early days in tech, his plans for Digg, the future of women’s sports, and what his immigrant mom taught him about America.

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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

2025-08-26 07:00:00                wired.com

New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated.

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WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza

2025-08-25 20:25:20                wired.com

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk about the Trump administration’s deals with chipmakers, OpenAI’s potential $500 billion valuation—and ants.

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Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over App Store Rankings

2025-08-25 16:57:24                wired.com

The xAI lawsuit claims that Grok’s ranking below ChatGPT is a sign of allegedly monopolistic behavior.