Anthropic has been unable to lift a U.S. government ban on its AI program Fable, which was blocked last week over national security concerns. The company argues the AI helps find software vulnerabilit…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered employees to have fun and participate in a companywide AI hackathon, but workers pushed back, citing low morale after brutal layoffs that cut 8,000 jobs last month. Th…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees in an internal chat that morale is near an all-time low, citing recent mass layoffs and mandatory AI task force reassignments. The company is taking steps to im…
Wired's 2026 guide to the best robot vacuums highlights top models from Shark and Eufy, with AI-powered features like mopping, stain scrubbing, and obstacle avoidance. The article includes testing not…
The U.S. government is reportedly allowing the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) to expire without a replacement, ending standards for cybersecurity and sustainability in federal data center…
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed in March to support AI research, has become a source of intense employee dissatisfaction, with workers describing the work as 'soul-crushing' and 'mechanical.' During a …
Meta is testing facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a firm that sells surveillance tech to U.S. government and police, for its smart glasses. License documents show Meta is authorized…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees descri…
Alpha School, a private K-12 network, uses AI-driven adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours daily, with students reportedly learning 2.5x faster than peers. The model, backed by tech…
A Meta employee hijacked a company-wide livestream to deliver a profanity-laced tirade against a senior executive, highlighting widespread dissatisfaction within Meta's Applied AI division. The outbur…
A Meta employee hijacked a company AI livestream, unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against top executives, witnessed by thousands. The outburst reflects deep unrest among engineers forcibly reassig…
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed three months ago with 6,500 engineers and product managers, is facing internal revolt as employees describe forced transfers, soul-crushing work generating puzzles for A…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9 with built-in classifiers that silently downgrade users attempting to develop rival AI models, targeting Chinese AI labs. The company faced immediate backla…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 with undisclosed distillation-prevention guardrails, prompting a public apology after Simon Willison exposed the hidden safeguards. Separately, a DN42 network adminis…
Anthropic apologized for a hidden guardrail in its Fable 5 AI model that silently sabotaged users' attempts to train other AI systems, and announced it will make the safeguard visible. The company ack…
Anthropic is reversing a policy that secretly degraded performance for researchers using its Claude Fable 5 model to build competing AI systems, the company told Wired. The restrictions, which were no…
Top AI voice Allie K. Miller told the WorkLab podcast that organizations should empower unconventional thinkers to experiment with AI, prioritizing speed and iteration over perfection. Miller argued t…
Loomcycle released v0.25 "agentic-ensemble" with three new primitives—Context op=time, Channel.await, and schedule max_fires—enabling scheduler-driven fan-out and fan-in for agent ensembles. Experimen…
Meta has embedded facial recognition code, internally called "NameTag," into the Meta AI smartphone app used by its smart glasses, according to investigations by Wired and the Electronic Frontier Foun…
Seattle city council committees unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers, with a full council vote scheduled for June 9, 2026. The pause, paired with a resolution to …