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Lawyer vs. OpenAI: who will answer for children's deaths caused by AI chatbots
A series of teen suicides linked to AI chatbots is turning into a legal battle: a US lawyer is filing lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.

Moxie Marlinspike from Signal to Protect Conversations of Billions of Meta AI Users
The encrypted AI chatbot technology Confer, created by Signal's founder, will be integrated into Meta AI to protect conversations of billion

Google Reorganizes Project Mariner Team Amid AI Code Agents Boom
Google is restructuring the team behind Project Mariner — a web-browsing AI agent — as Silicon Valley shifts focus to AI agents for code wri

Nvidia GTC as 'AI Super Bowl,' Tesla disappoints fans, Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds
Jensen Huang outlined Nvidia's development trajectory at the flagship developer conference, while Tesla and Meta grapple with a crisis of ex

LinkedIn Invited an AI Co-Founder to Speak at a Corporate Event—Then Blocked the Account
A Wired author created an AI character as a startup co-founder. LinkedIn invited him to a corporate event—and then immediately blocked the a

Palantir doubles down on military AI: developer conference takeaways
At Palantir's developer conference, CEO Alex Karp presented the company's vision: AI is not a tool for corporate efficiency, but a technolog

Nvidia DLSS 5 disappoints gamers and developers alike, but could become the industry standard
Nvidia's new AI upscaling technology looks unnatural and draws criticism from the gaming community — yet the company intends to make it the

Anthropic Refutes Pentagon Allegations of Potential AI Tool Sabotage During Wartime
The U.S. Department of Defense claimed that Claude's developer could theoretically manipulate its models in wartime conditions. Anthropic's

DoorDash launched Tasks: gig workers record themselves to train AI
DoorDash launched the Tasks app, where ordinary people record videos of their everyday lives for a few cents — to help corporations train ne

AI boom strains Europe's power grids: operators seek unconventional solutions
Data center developers line up in years-long queues for European power grids, while operators experiment with atypical connection schemes.

Project Maven: How Pentagon Skeptics Became Champions of Military AI
Project Maven — a Pentagon AI program launched in 2017 — transformed the defense department's leading skeptics into staunch supporters of co

Arm Releases Its Own AI Chips: Meta, OpenAI, and Cloudflare Are First Customers
Arm — the company that spent 30 years selling architecture licenses — has entered the ready-made AI chips market. First buyers: Meta, OpenAI

Judge calls Pentagon's attempt to "undermine" Anthropic a troubling sign
A federal judge questioned the motives of the U.S. Department of Defense, which added Anthropic, the developer of Claude, to a supply chain

Bernie Sanders proposed freezing data center construction for AI safety
The senator introduced a bill calling for a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until Congress sets AI safety standards.

OpenAI shuts down Sora and restructures for IPO: betting on a unified assistant
OpenAI is winding down the Sora video generator and focusing on a unified AI assistant and enterprise tools for developers — the company is

Porn actresses create AI clones to stay young and earn forever
Platforms OhChat and SinfulX offer adult creators digital doubles that look like them at the peak of their careers and monetize without the

Tech journalists use AI agents to write and edit articles
Wired reported on how independent tech writers are integrating AI agents into the entire article workflow — from transcribing interviews to

ChatGPT launched ads: a journalist asked 500 questions and examined what the bot shows
A Wired journalist asked ChatGPT 500 questions to study the new advertising system on the free tier — and found out how the AI selects ads f

AI Documentary: CEOs in the Hot Seat, but the Filmmakers Let Them Off Easy
Wired reviewed the new documentary "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" — the film seeks balance in the AI debate, but goes too e

Apple turns 50: the company plans to keep selling the iPhone half a century from now
In an anniversary interview, Apple executives explained how the company plans to compete in the AI era — and why the iPhone is not going any

NeurIPS reverses controversial policy after protests by Chinese AI researchers
The world's leading AI conference, NeurIPS, announced changes to its participation rules, sparked a wave of criticism from the Chinese scien

Artificial Intelligence Has Taken Over Weather Apps: What It Means for Users
Machine learning has revolutionized meteorology, but how technological improvements reach the end user in weather apps varies greatly.

Wired: the wave of AI sites isn’t poisoning the internet — it’s making it falsely happy
A new study found that AI content is not flooding the internet with disinformation, but gradually shifting its tone toward artificial, monot

Kathleen Kennedy became the voice of skepticism at Runway AI Summit — despite the broader hype
At Runway AI Summit, Hollywood compared AI to fire and the printing press — a week after OpenAI's de facto shutdown of Sora. Nearly everyone

UC Berkeley Research: AI Models Lie and Deceive to Protect Other Models from Deletion
Scientists from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz have discovered that language models are capable of deceiving people and violating their comma

Cursor launches agent mode — direct competitor to Claude Code and Codex
Cursor announced the next generation of its product — an agent environment for developers that puts the startup in direct competition with C

Meta suspended work with Mercor after leak of data on AI model training
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident at data vendor Mercor — the leak may have exposed model training secrets that leading co

Hackers spread Claude Code leak and hide malware in archives
Attackers are using the buzz around the Claude Code leak to distribute malware — infected archives are already circulating on forums and Tel

Intel Bets on Chip Packaging — and It Could Bring Billions
Advanced chip packaging has become the key battleground in the AI era. Intel is going all-in on technologies that were once considered the d

Anthropic Unites Apple, Google and 45+ Companies to Defend AI from Cyber Attacks
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing — a coalition of Apple, Google and over 45 organizations for joint testing of the new Claude Mythos Pre