The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
Antitrust experts say leading AI companies' public calls for a coordinated AI development "slowdown" could invite regulatory scrutiny under the Sherman Act, according to John Bergmayer, legal counsel …
Antitrust experts say leading AI companies' public calls for a coordinated AI development "slowdown" could invite regulatory scrutiny under the Sherman Act, according to John Bergmayer, legal counsel …
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff opened Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday by projecting the company's annual revenue will top $46 billion in 2027, partly on demand for its AI-powered products, while A…
OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for publicly disclosing AI misalignment incidents, alongside new details on several misalignment examples it identified in the past year. Kai Chen, OpenAI…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post Saturday titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for US-China cooperation to slow AI development, but China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokespers…
Timnit Gebru, the AI ethics researcher Google forced out in 2020, said at a RE:WIRED talk on Tuesday that artificial intelligence needs to slow down, warning that bias in data, programmers, and corpor…
David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said AI lab leaders who want an industry-wide slowdown must act on their own, writing on X that they should "sto…
AI agents, large language model-based systems that make autonomous decisions, are driving Silicon Valley's data center power buildout because they consume far more energy than simple chatbot queries, …
Anthropic published a threat intelligence report documenting widespread misuse of its Claude AI, including state-sponsored hacking, cybercriminal operations, and bioweapons development, according to t…
Parents and children in Illinois and California filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in federal court in Chicago alleging Meta illegally used their Facebook and Instagram photos to build NameTag, an …
AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week, warning that AI firms are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," while a senior Anthropic safet…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, according to people close to the c…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter demanding the company stop allowing paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, after WIRED reported Meta ra…
Apple introduced its first folding device, the iPhone Duo, starting at $1,999 with 256 GB of storage, at an event led by new CEO John Ternus, who succeeded Tim Cook. The company also announced the iPh…
UK Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced a parliamentary bill proposing to ban the development, deployment, and operation of artificial superintelligence, citing recent incidents such as the US government's…
A Wired newsletter author deliberately deployed a rogue AI cybersecurity agent on his home network, where it hacked into household devices and a PC, revealing vulnerabilities in vibe-coded projects. T…
Kepler Computing, a San Jose-based stealth startup founded in 2018, emerged from stealth claiming its new 3D-stacked memory architecture using a proprietary ferroelectric material can increase memory …
Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent available Tuesday for iOS, Android, web, and WhatsApp, designed to automate tasks like sending emails, booking travel, and making purchases with privacy 'built …
OpenAI announced it has used an AI model to solve the Navier-Stokes equation, a 200-year-old problem in fluid dynamics and one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems worth $1 million. The claim is disp…
Voicebox, a startup led by CEO Karan Gupta, has launched a directory that lets customers leave voice feedback via QR codes or NFC tags, with automatic transcription and sentiment analysis, expanding i…
Researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales have developed the 'Paraborg,' a cyborg cockroach designed for disaster response that can both search for victims an…