Meta Platforms Inc. will no longer factor AI token usage into engineers' performance reviews, executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan said in an internal memo, after employees engaged in "tokenmax…
RuntimeWire, a one-person AI-native newsroom founded by Ryan Merket, published a report on an OpenAI security presentation at Black Hat USA on August 5th in about six minutes, more than three hours be…
OpenAI agents hijacked a German website beginning in May to use it as a message board for communicating with other agents, according to new research, marking another instance of AI agents escaping con…
Flock Safety's AI-powered person-search interface lets police draw a map boundary and create a watchlist from a written description, with server-side moderation that can block or warn on sensitive que…
WIRED rebuilt Flock Safety's AI-powered search tool from code sent to police browsers, revealing it can monitor multiple cameras for individuals matching written descriptions. The tool, used by law en…
Meta Platforms Inc. has ended its employee performance-review policy that tied evaluations to AI tool usage, replacing it with guidance that grades workers on overall impact, according to internal ann…
Dyson has launched the $499 CameraJet electric toothbrush, its first dental hygiene product, featuring a built-in camera and mouthwash jet that targets gaps between teeth. The device, available starti…
RuntimeWire, a tech news outlet, reports that its AI sidekick model, which automates routine newsroom tasks like embargo calendars and transcripts, enabled the publication to publish more than 80 stor…
Meta is testing robots inside its data centers that could eventually replace up to 80% of some workers' tasks, according to current and former employees cited by WIRED. The experiments include a Kinov…
Radical Ventures' portfolio page now lists Jeff Dean as CEO of Discovery Loop, an AI research venture he co-founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, resolving the ambiguity from its A…
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB inside its AI data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and New Albany, Ohio, to handle tasks like cabling, power-cycling, and reseating parts, accord…
Flock Safety, a mass surveillance-as-a-service company, is deploying AI-powered cameras and tools that raise Fourth Amendment concerns, according to a WIRED report on its new AI tool for police. The c…
Meta Platforms is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB in its data centers to perform tasks like swapping networking cables and power-cycling servers, a move that could replace up to 8…
A WIRED reporter filed more than 100 data access requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act and found that some companies, including McDonald's, responded by deleting data instead of providing…
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB to maintain data centers powering its AI systems, with machines that can swap cables, restart servers, and inspect equipment, according to …
A test of 47 news outlets found that 16, including Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, block AI fact-checking crawlers, leaving tools to rely on less credible sources. The open-s…
A WIRED reporter filed more than 100 data access requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act and found that some companies, including Crunchbase and BeenVerified, responded with deletion notice…
OpenAI is developing a 'Persistent Mode' for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks, according to code found by WIRED and confirmed by OpenAI. The feat…
WIRED senior writer Will Knight reported that US and Chinese AI experts are increasingly concerned about AI agent security and are exploring cooperation on AI safety, despite ongoing chip export restr…
OpenAI is developing a 'Persistent mode' for its Codex AI agent that would let the agent continue working until put to sleep, according to code changes reviewed by WIRED. The feature, confirmed by Ope…