Persona Atlas, a tool developed during the "build-small" hackathon, transforms public figures into measurable behavioral portraits by having a small-model agent research them online and answer open-en…
A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups a…
AI infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional tech hubs as rising compute costs, power constraints, and geopolitical barriers force innovation in regions where scarcity is a design constraint. In …
Silicon Valley is hiring philosophers with Ph.D.s and offering flush compensation packages to help build more virtuous AI systems. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are consulting moral philosophers…
Economic gains from artificial intelligence are concentrating in a small number of global hubs, including Silicon Valley, the Washington-to-Boston corridor, and Shenzhen, China, according to an op-ed …
Google's new Gemini Spark AI agent, introduced at the company's I/O developer conference, scanned a WIRED reporter's personal emails, calendar, and documents to plan a birthday party — but misidentifi…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a free, offline AI mentor for activists that runs entirely on a user's device without cloud processing or data logging. The 3GB app provi…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warned Europe has roughly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or risk becoming a "vassal state" under US influence. The French startup is constructing a 10-me…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah stated publicly that every frontier AI lab operates within incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing, acknowledging that no lab can serve as its own final…
Tencent is expanding its AI agent WorkBuddy into overseas markets, marking a shift from a recent pattern where Silicon Valley-built agent tools dominated global discourse. WorkBuddy has spent the past…
The Illinois House of Representatives passed SB 315 on Wednesday, requiring frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to undergo third-party safety audits. The bill, which Governor …
A federal judge in San Francisco ordered law firm Quinn Emanuel to pay $3 million to Palo Alto biotech company Guardant Health, plus a $100,000 punitive fine, for misconduct by four of its Silicon Val…
Pope Leo XIV published his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on Monday, warning that artificial intelligence development cannot be left to wealthy industry leaders and must instead involve workers, tea…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a new AI chatbot designed as a private, on-device mentor for activists and organizers. The app aims to provide left-wing movements with s…
California Governor Gavin Newsom is shifting toward a more populist stance on artificial intelligence regulation as he prepares for a potential 2028 presidential run, after years of aligning with Sili…
Software engineers Mario Zechner and Armin Ronacher, who helped build the OpenClaw AI agent, warned that AI coding tools are flooding software with "vibe slop" by enabling users to skip critical devel…
The article argues that the decline of quality and "craft" in products, marketing, and brand-building is not primarily caused by artificial intelligence, but by consumer and corporate choices that pri…
Despite political tensions and a widely reported tech race, the U.S. and Chinese AI ecosystems remain deeply interconnected through talent, research, and culture. American AI companies have recruited …
The article contrasts the simple, focused lifestyles of engineers and scientists—who prioritize mental energy by minimizing decisions like clothing—with the consumer-driven culture of social media, wh…
Author's experience attending Google I/O 2026, highlighting the keynote announcements of new AI models like Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity platform. The author notes the overwhelming scale of AI advan…