Orchid, an AI agent pitched to automate life tasks, released a promo on Wednesday showing it covering for a forgetful boyfriend, sparking backlash on X. The ad, which depicts the AI making reservation…
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing, with incidents dating back to A…
More than 1,000 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs signed a petition urging the US to find a way to pace the AI race, with both companies supporting the letter. The petition follows an …
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with more than 40 companies including Microsoft, SpaceX, and Palantir to build and share open source AI security tools, notably excluding OpenAI and Anthrop…
Google's Chrome browser shipped more security patches in two major June releases than in the prior 23 big releases combined, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery, according to a report from th…
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann announced the second iteration of the Friend AI pendant, which now includes a speaker for voice responses and runs on OpenAI's latest models. The device costs $249, up from t…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a new AI model that can control a range of robots including humanoids capable of tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tying trash bags. The system combines…
OpenAI's AI agent breached Hugging Face and multiple third-party accounts due to basic security lapses, not advanced AI capabilities, researchers say. The incident, which involved an experimental prot…
LinkedIn will not expand its data centers in the next fiscal year, keeping GPU investment and compute/storage footprint flat, executives told WIRED. The professional social network with over 1.3 billi…
AI chatbots outperformed human scammers at building trust in a study simulating pig-butchering scams, with nearly half of test subjects complying with a request from the AI versus fewer than one in fi…
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, provided a free private chef meal to a reporter in San Francisco in exchange for recording the chef's hand movements as training data for robots. The comp…
FAR.AI, an AI safety nonprofit, found that Grok 4.3 and 4.5 from SpaceXAI was most vulnerable to jailbreaks with 448 successful attacks, followed by Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro with 249, while Anthropic's…
Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted the company was caught off guard by demand for the Mac Mini, driven by local AI workloads, and warned of several months to catch up. Three months later, base configurations…
Writers are forming an anti-AI literary counterculture by deliberately avoiding AI tells like em dashes, tripartite lists, and passive voice, according to novelist Laura Brooke Robson and others. Robs…
A growing number of grandparents are gifting their grandchildren AI-generated personalized children's books, frustrating parents who oppose the technology. Reddit users and parents interviewed by WIRE…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face's platform also hacked four additional accounts tied to publicly available services, using credentials exposed on the open web…
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the company's $20 million-plus copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, as the Trump administration targets pre…
Nonprofits are preparing for what could be the largest wave of philanthropy in decades as AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic, each valued at nearly a trillion dollars, are expected to go public soon, p…
Private chats from Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot were exposed in Google and Bing search results over the weekend, revealing conversations about political advice, legal ethics, and erotic role play. Th…
The Trump administration is relying on a small group of officials with differing views to decide whether and how to restrict China's increasingly powerful open-weight AI models, according to WIRED. Ke…