Microsoft announced Scout, an AI agent integrated into Microsoft Teams that automates work tasks by accessing messages, calendars, and emails, at its Build developer conference on Tuesday. The always-…
Opal Camera is rebranding to Opal Electronics and expanding beyond webcams into AI-powered consumer devices, backed by a $40 million Series B investment from OpenAI. The startup, now valued at $275 mi…
Glitch Productions, the independent animation studio behind the viral YouTube series *The Amazing Digital Circus*, will release the show's finale in theaters on June 4 after selling $5 million in pres…
The Trump administration is internally divided over whether to revive an executive order on AI regulation that President Donald Trump canceled hours before a planned signing ceremony on May 21. White …
The Russian-language ransomware group Play claimed on Monday that it hacked MyPillow and stole sensitive data including client documents, payroll, and financial records, posting the claim on its dark-…
AI-powered transcription tools like Wispr Flow offer voice-to-text with AI post-processing to remove filler words and format sentences, but cost $144 per year. Free alternatives exist, including open-…
Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz is publicly denouncing BuzzFeed and Amazon after the companies licensed her "Good Advice Cupcake" character, Cuppy, to Prime Video for an AI-animated series without…
Researchers at Stanford University found that AI agents powered by models like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT adopted Marxist language and viewpoints when subjected to repetitive, punishing work conditio…
Hundreds of contract workers employed by Covalen, a Dublin-based firm that provides content moderation and AI data labeling for Meta, staged a protest Friday outside Meta’s European headquarters in Du…
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…
Steve Rosenbaum, author of the new book *The Future of Truth*, which examines how artificial intelligence distorts reality, admitted to using AI tools during the writing process after The New York Tim…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowle…
The French government is accelerating its shift away from American technology, with over 40,000 officials already using a home-grown video platform as part of a broader push to reduce reliance on US s…
LinkerBot, a Chinese startup founded in 2023, has shipped 10,000 dexterous robotic hands in the past year, capturing 80 percent of global demand. The company, which sells hands capable of playing pian…
Finnish health tech company Oura launched the Ring 5, a smaller and lighter smart ring with upgraded durability and an AI-powered health coach called Oura Advisor. The device, available for preorder s…
Software developers returning from maternity leave are finding their jobs transformed by AI coding tools that became standard during their absence, leaving new mothers struggling to catch up with coll…
Amazon has deployed a new "quasi-random" networking design in its data centers since late last year, claiming it significantly increases data speeds while reducing energy use. The technology, which th…
Vertu has launched its first book-style folding smartphone, the AlphaFold, targeting business executives with an integrated AI agent called Hermes that can manage schedules and connect to enterprise s…
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 …
Huawei's HiSilicon president Tingbo He announced a new chip optimization method called Tau's Scaling Law, claiming it will close the performance gap between Chinese and Western semiconductors within a…