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Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational

The genome-editing technology can be supercharged by artificial intelligence—and the results are already being felt.

https://www.wired.com/story/combining-ai-and-crispr-will-be-transformational/


Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad

Beyond the deepfakes and disinformation, the potential for AI to make politics more accessible and equitable cannot be ignored.

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-are-coming-for-democracy-but-its-not-all-bad/


We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence

A growing movement to allow access to algorithmic workings won’t stop the ubiquitous spread of artificial intelligence, but it could restore public confidence in it.

https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-new-right-to-repair-for-artificial-intelligence/


Relevant! Relevant! Relevant! At 50, Microsoft Is an AI Giant, Open-Source Lover, and as Bad as Ever

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

https://www.wired.com/story/at-age-50-microsoft-is-an-ai-giant-an-open-source-lover-and-bad-as-it-ever-was/


The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired

A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-reporter-who-took-my-old-job-just-got-fired/


The Man Behind Amazon's Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper

Brad Porter helped Amazon deploy an army of warehouse robots. His new creation—Proxie—could help other companies embrace more automation.

https://www.wired.com/story/robot-army-proxie-humanoid/


The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-patent-trademark-office-internally-banned-generative-ai/


Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.

https://www.wired.com/story/bitfinex-hacker-gets-5-years-for-10-billion-bitcoin-heist/


Some of Substack’s Biggest Writers Rely On AI Writing Tools

An analysis of Substack’s top newsletters estimated that around 10 percent publish AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

https://www.wired.com/story/substacks-writers-use-ai-chatgpt/


I’m Out of Shape. Will an AI Trainer Improve My Fitness?

In the premiere installment of WIRED’s new AI advice column “The Prompt,” we answer questions about AI’s ability to change your body, and your ability to change AI’s environmental impact.

https://www.wired.com/story/prompt-ai-for-workouts-minimize-environmental-impact/


The Great American Microchip Mobilization

Under Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike, the US has been determined to “reshore” chipmaking. Now money and colossal infrastructure are flowing to a vast Intel site in Ohio—just as the company may be falling apart.

https://www.wired.com/story/intel-great-american-microchip-mobilization/


The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-robot-drone-guns/


I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars

Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.

https://www.wired.com/story/swarovski-optik-ax-visio-ai-binoculars/


OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.

https://www.wired.com/story/opena-alternet-raw-story-copyright-lawsuit-dmca-standing/


The $50 Million Movie 'Here' De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI

As Hollywood studios, actors, and writers wrangle over the use of AI in films, a major new release has fully embraced it.

https://www.wired.com/story/here-movie-de-age-tom-hanks-generative-ai/


Meta's Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-llama-ai-gpu-training/


‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music

Will Hatcher got internet famous when Metro Boomin sampled his AI-generated song for a diss track released during the Kendrick Lamar–Drake beef. That was just the beginning.

https://www.wired.com/story/bbl-drizzy-foretold-the-future-of-ai-music/


Apple Intelligence Isn't Ready to Wow You—Yet

Apple's artificial features are finally rolling out today, but you might find yourself saying, ‘Is that it?’

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-isnt-ready-to-wow-you-yet/


Apple’s Sales in China Are Stalling. What Will It Sacrifice to Turn Things Around?

With iPhone sales down and Apple Intelligence banned, Apple looks ready to compromise.

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-sales-in-china-are-stalling-what-will-it-sacrifice-to-turn-things-around/


Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-perplexity-scientific-racism-search-results-ai/


Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network

Inspired by microscopic worms, Liquid AI’s founders developed a more adaptive, less energy-hungry kind of neural network. Now the MIT spin-off is revealing several new ultraefficient models.

https://www.wired.com/story/liquid-ai-redesigning-neural-network/


A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

In a new copyright lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, Dow Jones and the New York Post argue that hallucinating fake news and attributing it to real papers is illegal.

https://www.wired.com/story/dow-jones-new-york-post-sue-perplexity/


How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI

Donald Trump's opposition to “woke” safety standards for artificial intelligence would likely mean the dismantling of regulations that protect Americans from misinformation, discrimination, and worse.

https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-ai-safety-regulation/


Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called ‘World,’ wants a future where humans are ‘orb-verified.’

https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/

Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency


Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What's Possible’

Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools, they need filmmakers to show they can be used responsibly.

https://www.wired.com/story/filmmakers-are-worried-about-ai-big-tech-wants-them-to-see-whats-possible/


All of Our Gadgets Just Keep Talking

This week, we cover the latest hardware using voice controls and generative AI, including a collar that lets you chat with your pets. Also, this podcast is changing shape, and we tell you all about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-662/


This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user's personal information to an attacker.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-imprompter-malware-llm/


Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions, lets you peer into their thought process—sometimes revealing hidden motives.

https://www.wired.com/story/dippy-ai-girlfriend-boyfriend-reasoning/


Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it's not quite what it's cracked up to be.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ai-llm-reasoning-research/


Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There's Little You Can Do to Stop Them

Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

https://www.wired.com/story/characterai-has-a-non-consensual-bot-problem/


Real-Time Video Deepfake Scams Are Here. This Tool Attempts to Zap Them

Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams.

https://www.wired.com/story/real-time-video-deepfake-scams-reality-defender/


Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-deepfake-nudify-bots-telegram/


'Piece by Piece' Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again

Back in 2021, Morgan Neville thought using AI to recreate the late Anthony Bourdain’s voice would be an interesting Easter egg in his documentary. He ended up being a canary in Hollywood’s AI coal mine.

https://www.wired.com/story/piece-by-piece-director-morgan-neville-will-never-use-ai-again/


How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/


Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History

Is a deal really a deal? Amazon's ChatGPT competitor, a chatbot it calls Rufus, will now answer some user questions on price changes.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-rufus-price-check/


How Should We Feel About Ring?

Amazon's popular security camera brand now has some AI enhancements that make it easier to sort through footage. But we have to ask: Is more AI-powered surveillance a good thing, or a step too far?

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-661/


Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

The captains of industry that were going to pilot us through new virtual worlds are still around. They're just going by a new name.

https://www.wired.com/story/where-have-all-the-chief-metaverse-officers-gone/

Gear / Products / Augmented and Virtual Reality


The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

OpenAI’s spree of licensing agreements is paying off already—at least in terms of getting publishers to lower their guard.

https://www.wired.com/story/open-ai-publisher-deals-scraping-bots/


This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/


How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits.

https://www.wired.com/story/fmcu-us-military-controller/


License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers

From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.

https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-readers-political-signs-bumper-stickers/


Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

The Sundai Club meets once a month with a goal of pushing the limits of generative AI. Earlier this year, its members built me a handy tool for journalists.

https://www.wired.com/story/sundai-club-generative-ai-hackathon-group/


This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

While big platforms like Reddit have signed deals with the AI giants, YouTube leaves licensing in the hands of individual creators. The “License to Scrape” program aims to give those streaming stars proper leverage.

https://www.wired.com/story/license-to-scrape-youtube-ai-data-license-creators/


How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children

I kept seeing more and more utterly absurd, hugely viral home remodeling videos on TikTok. So I tracked down where they actually come from.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-tiktok-unhinged-home-remodeling-videos/


No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity's Problems

The OpenAI CEO’s recent mini-manifesto argues (again) that AI will make the future impossibly bright. He could use a refresher course on the basics of human behavior.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-no-sam-altman-ai-wont-solve-all-of-humanitys-problems/


China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen

New Chinese regulation attempts to define how AI content labeling should work and stamp out AI-generated disinformation.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-wants-to-make-ai-watermarks-happen/


Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up

The Pager Protocol podcast went up hours after exploding pagers and two-way radios killed dozens and injured hundreds in Lebanon last week. How did it do it? Lots of artificial intelligence tools.

https://www.wired.com/story/pager-protocol-pager-explosion-ai-podcast/


Generative AI Hype Feels Inescapable. Tackle It Head On With Education

In their book AI Snake Oil, two Princeton researchers pinpoint the culprits of the AI hype cycle and advocate for a more critical, holistic understanding of artificial intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hype-ai-snake-oil/


When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting With an AI Host

Restaurants field a high volume of phone calls from inquisitive tourists or diners running late. Increasingly, voice chatbots are picking up on the other end of the line.

https://www.wired.com/story/restaurant-ai-hosts/


Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI

The studio behind the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping point.

https://www.wired.com/story/lionsgates-new-deal-is-a-test-of-hollywoods-relationship-with-ai/


I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App

SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.

https://www.wired.com/story/socialai-app-ai-chatbots-chatgpt/


An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts

Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-veo/


Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don't Know

A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up.

https://www.wired.com/story/teens-generative-ai-use-schools-parents/


OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-threatens-bans-as-users-probe-o1-model/


OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum

Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action.

https://www.wired.com/story/mumsnet-openai-copyright-allegations/


The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder

Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-the-godmother-of-ai-wants-everyone-to-be-a-world-builder/


Apple Shared Its First Public AI-Generated Image. It's Craig Federighi's Dog

Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-image-playground-craig-federighi-dog/


This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.

https://www.wired.com/story/hume-ai-emotional-intelligence/


Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?

Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate.

https://www.wired.com/story/bad-kamala-harris-ai-generated-images/


Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/


This iPhone ‘Supercycle’ May Not Be So Super

Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone's buying the hype.

https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-16-supercycle/


What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy

xAI's generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It's also scooping up a ton of data people post on X. Here's how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should.

https://www.wired.com/story/grok-ai-privacy-opt-out/


Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

This week on Politics Lab, we’re talking about AI’s potential impact on the election—and why it’s so hard to regulate nationwide.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-porn-election/


Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?

The ecommerce giant has acquired a team to give bots greater intelligence and dexterity—potentially automating much more of its warehouse operations.

https://www.wired.com/amazon-covariant-robotics-deal/


Google, Apple, and Discord Let Harmful AI 'Undress' Websites Use Their Sign-On Systems

Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found. Discord and Apple have started to terminate some developers’ accounts.

https://www.wired.com/story/undress-app-ai-harm-google-apple-login/


A Popular iOS Illustration App Is Saying No to Generative AI

“I really fucking hate generative AI,” says Procreate CEO James Cuda, who believes the technology is “ripping the humanity out of things.”

https://www.wired.com/story/procreate-app-no-generative-ai/


Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

The media company joins The Atlantic, Axel Springer, Vox Media, and a host of other publishers who have partnered with OpenAI.

https://www.wired.com/story/conde-nast-openai-deal/


Trump Shares AI-Generated Images Claiming Swifties Are Supporting Him

A week after falsely claiming Kamala Harris’ campaign used AI to inflate crowd sizes, Trump is now posting AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift fans endorsing him.

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-shares-ai-generated-taylor-swift/


Researchers Have Ranked the Nicest and Naughtiest AI Models

Studies find wildly divergent views on risk and suggest that regulations could be tightened.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-risk-rank-studies/


Your Photos Aren’t Real

This week: Google’s new photo manipulation tools produce some convincing results, but how much of this unreality are we supposed to stomach?

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-655/


This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms

Inspired by his expertise in breaking ancient codes, Roeland Decorte built a smartphone app that continuously listens for signs of disease hidden in our pulse.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-doctor-roeland-decorte-future-industries/


Nascar Pit Crews Are Using AI for the Perfect Pit Stop

In a sport where speed is everything, Richard Childress Racing has embraced artificial intelligence to time its refueling down to the millisecond.

https://www.wired.com/story/lenovo-has-built-richard-childress-racing-its-own-nascar-pit-stop-ai/


ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

The new voice feature from OpenAI for ChatGPT is often entertaining, and will even do a Trump impression. It likely rolls out to all paid users this fall.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-advanced-voice-mode-first-impressions/


How You Can Tell That Kamala Harris' Rally Crowds Aren't AI-Generated

Conspiracy theories have shot up around images of surging crowds for Harris-Walz campaign events. But all it takes is a little research to prove the photos are real.

https://www.wired.com/story/kamala-harris-rally-crowds-ai-trump-conspiracy/


Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs

Under new CEO Paolo Ardoino, the crypto company is spending heavily in a bid to muscle into an AI market dominated by the world’s largest tech firms.

https://www.wired.com/story/tether-ceo-paolo-ardoino-crypto-ai-interview/


Palmer Luckey’s Defense Startup, Anduril, Raises $1.5 Billion to Produce AI-Powered Weapons

The company plans to build a Tesla-style, software-optimized factory to manufacture autonomous drones and other battlefield tech.

https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-palmer-luckey-funding-ai-drones-arsenal-factory/


AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool

A data center in Paris has been hooked up to the energy system heating the Olympic pool. But critics call projects recycling data centers’ excess heat as a distraction from the real environmental costs of AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-heating-the-olympic-pool/


Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes

Newly announced measures by the search giant aim to make AI-generated, or otherwise spoofed explicit content, more difficult to discover.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-tries-to-crack-down-on-explicit-deepfakes/


Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin

Plus: Wilson Audio revamps its iconic speakers, Elon continues to Elon, and Google’s AI overviews are already causing chaos.

https://www.wired.com/story/things-keep-getting-worse-for-the-humane-ai-pin/


How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details. It’s rolling out first to ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-memory-feature/


I'm a Boy. Does Playing Female Characters in Video Games Make Me Gay?

WIRED's advice columnist answers questions about fantasy vs. reality.

https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-support-gender-avatar-video-games/


Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/


Rabbit's AI Assistant Is Here. And Soon a Camera Wearable Will Be Too

WIRED went along to the company's launch event where customers picked up the very first R1s and learned of an inbound “all-seeing” accompanying AI device.

https://www.wired.com/story/rabbit-r1-launch-event-nyc/


A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI

Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.

https://www.wired.com/story/jason-matheny-national-security-insider-dangers-of-ai/


The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK

The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-biggest-deepfake-porn-website-is-now-blocked-in-the-uk/


How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You

ChatGPT’s conversation tools are fantastic—when the chatbot isn’t constantly talking over you. Try these tips for a better AI audio experience.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-chatgpt-talking-over-you/


The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem

When The Tortured Poets Department leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swore it must be AI. Expect that to be a common refrain.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-taylor-swift-album-leaks-big-ai-problem/


The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot

Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unleashed a stronger new Atlas robot that can move in ways us puny humans never can.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-atlas-robot-is-dead-long-live-the-atlas-robot/


How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/


AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect

AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-ai-scam-calls-detect/


This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories

Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language to help people understand what’s happening in a building, car, or human body

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-startup-archetype-talk-to-houses-cars-and-factories/


Here Come the AI Worms

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.

https://www.wired.com/story/here-come-the-ai-worms/


Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI

Google has hit pause on Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after a far-right backlash to its historical depictions.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/


The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

It’s so simple: Axe 26 words from the Communications Decency Act. Welcome to a world without Section 230.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-internet-hack-that-could-save-everything-section-230/


Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot

Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag.

https://www.wired.com/story/goody-2-worlds-most-responsible-ai-chatbot/


AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-ai-rewiring-coders-brains-github-copilot/


London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.

https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/


AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal

A month after the mysterious Biden calls in New Hampshire, the FCC can now go after robocall scammers that use AI voice clones.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal-fcc/


Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google's new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-prepares-for-a-future-where-search-isnt-king/


How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google's Subscription-Only AI Chatbot

Google's answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-gemini-advanced-ai-chatbot/


Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google's Subscription Future

Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company's burgeoning services business.

https://www.wired.com/story/gemini-advanced-google-subscriptions-ai/


Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.”

https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-cloud-boss-selipsky-generative-ai-hype/


Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin

Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. But he wants you to know he's a nice guy.

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-an-ai-clickbait-kingpin/


Mystery Company Linked to Biden Robocall Identified by New Hampshire Attorney General

The FCC has issued a cease and desist and is working on a new proposal banning AI-generated robocalls.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-hampshire-biden-ai-robocall/


I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-tested-next-gen-ai-assistant/


US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools

Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants.

https://www.wired.com/story/doj-predictive-policing-lawmakers-demand/


The George Carlin ‘AI’ Standup Creators Now Say a Human Wrote the Jokes

A lawsuit filed by Carlin's manager will still move forward.

https://www.wired.com/story/george-carlin-ai-standup-written-by-humans/


If Taylor Swift Can't Defeat Deepfake Porn, No One Can

Deepfake porn is prolific. The explicit, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift that circulated on X this week are taking the issue to new heights.

https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-deepfake-porn-artificial-intelligence-pushback/


Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs

Two fake-audio experts say that the deepfake robocall of President Biden received by some voters last week was likely created with technology from Silicon Valley’s favorite voice cloning startup.

https://www.wired.com/story/biden-robocall-deepfake-elevenlabs/


AI Hits the Campaign Trail

This week, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 US elections. We also consider the ways regulators, social platforms, and the voting public are dealing with it.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-629/


An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-executive-ed-newton-rex-turns-crusader-stand-up-for-artists/


Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech

The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.

https://www.wired.com/story/regulators-are-finally-catching-up-with-big-tech/


Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-senate-tech-companies-pay-ai-training-data/


Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse

The Steamboat Willie version of Disney icon Mickey Mouse just entered the public domain, and there's already an explosion of related AI-generated art. We talked to some of the creators behind it.

https://www.wired.com/story/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-public-domain-artificial-intelligence/


To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.

https://www.wired.com/story/own-future-artificial-intelligence-read-shakespeare/


CES 2024 Preview: Get Ready for a ‘Tsunami’ of AI

CES, which kicks off January 9 in Las Vegas, will feature the usual assortment of new consumer tech products. This year, even more of that stuff will be empowered by machine intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/ces-2024-preview-a-tsunami-of-ai/


My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot

Some Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI's answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-elon-musk-grok-political-bias-chatbot/


Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul

Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.

https://www.wired.com/story/platform-work-eu-overhauls/


Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant

Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer’s research material and help them extract and explore the key themes. Maybe too well.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-notebooklm-ai-ultimate-writing-assistant/


Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

A new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-generative-ai-boom/


The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

The Authors Guild and other artists’ groups say that it's unfair to train AI algorithms on their work without permission. Tech companies generally argue that it counts as “fair use.”

https://www.wired.com/story/livewired-generative-ai-copyright/


How to Use Google’s Gemini AI Right Now in Its Bard Chatbot

You can try out Gemini, Google's rival to ChatGPT, for free. It’s super easy to access right inside Bard.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-gemini-ai-bard-chatbot/


Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI

Google’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-gemini-ai/


Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

Google says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-model-chatgpt/


How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

OpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-openai-governance-structure-meltdown/


A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4

Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.

https://www.wired.com/story/automated-ai-attack-gpt-4/


The Rise of AI in Alternative Browsers—and What’s Next

Developers at smaller companies have been adding new ways to experience the internet with AI assistance. Their visions for the future radically differ.

https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-browsers-built-in-ai-arc-sigmaos-brave-opera/


Inside America's School Internet Censorship Machine

A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. Students say it makes the web entirely unusable.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-americas-school-internet-censorship-machine/


OpenAI Committed to Buying $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman

Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously made a personal investment in Rain.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/


‘Authentic’ Is 2023’s Word of the Year. You Read That Right

In a year dominated by artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and disingenuity, “authentic” has somehow emerged as Merriam-Webster’s word for 2023.

https://www.wired.com/authentc-word-of-the-year-artificial-intelligence-pop-culture-politics/


The Year of ChatGPT and Living Generatively

In November last year, OpenAI launched a “low key research preview” called ChatGPT. What happened next transformed the tech industry—and perhaps humanity’s future.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-chatgpt-year-of-living-generatively/


Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare

Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat. Anduril’s new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-roadrunner-drone/


Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With New Board Seat for Microsoft

The CEO’s memo to staff announces a non-voting seat for Microsoft but leaves questions about the future of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-officially-returns-to-openai-board-seat-microsoft/


Amazon’s Answer to ChatGPT Is a Workplace Assistant Called Q

Amazon has developed a generative AI helper that codes, manages cloud software, and powers business apps. The company has also developed new silicon for AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-q-ai-chatbot-aws/


Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board

After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.

https://www.wired.com/story/women-in-tech-openai-board/


Nicolas Cage on Memes, Myths, and Why He Thinks AI Is a ‘Nightmare’

Nicolas Cage’s new movie Dream Scenario investigates the trappings of fame and what happens when someone’s notoriety is bigger than themselves—something Cage understands well.

https://www.wired.com/story/nicolas-cage-interview-artificial-intelligence-memes/


Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse

Five days of chaos at OpenAI revealed weaknesses in the company’s self-governance. That worries people who believe AI poses an existential risk and proponents of AI regulation.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-second-coming-sparks-new-fears-ai-apocalypse/


Mods Are Asleep. Quick, Everyone Release AI Products

In the five days between Sam Altman’s mysterious firing and rehiring as OpenAI’s CEO, multiple companies dropped new artificial intelligence tools.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-artificial-intelligence-products-openai-anthropic-stability-ai/


Meet the Lawyer Leading the Human Resistance Against AI

Matthew Butterick is leading a wave of lawsuits against major AI firms, from OpenAI to Meta. Win or lose, his work will shape the future of human creativity.

https://www.wired.com/story/matthew-butterick-ai-copyright-lawsuits-openai-meta/


Sam Altman Reaches Agreement to Return to OpenAI

After days of chaos at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the company says it has “in principle” reached an agreement for ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to his post.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-back/


OpenAI’s Boardroom Drama Could Mess Up Your Future

OpenAI’s board appears to have ejected Sam Altman in an attempt to preserve OpenAI’s mission of keeping AI development safe. The chaotic results have done the exact opposite.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-boardroom-drama-sam-altman-could-mess-up-your-future/


Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama

Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI but left after his own failed coup. Now he has shared an unsigned letter containing unverified accusations against the recently fired CEO Sam Altman.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-troll-openai-drama/


The Mystery at the Heart of the OpenAI Chaos

Last week Sam Altman was sensationally fired from OpenAI, tipping the AI company into chaos. It remains unclear what made the board decide to act.

https://www.wired.com/story/mystery-at-the-heart-of-the-openai-chaos/


OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns

More than 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/


Microsoft Emerges as the Winner in OpenAI Chaos

Microsoft has hired OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head a new advanced AI team, acquiring one of the most successful management groups in the AI industry.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-emerges-as-the-winner-in-openai-chaos/


Sam Altman’s Attempt to Return as OpenAI CEO Fails as Board Turns to ex-Twitch CEO

Altman was ousted by OpenAI’s board Friday but by Sunday was back in the building to negotiate a return. The board chose ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-return-fails-ceo-twitch-emmett-shear/


How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman

Chaos at OpenAI has its root in an unusual corporate structure designed to protect humanity against rogue AI—some investors had expressed fears it could weaken the company.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-bizarre-structure-4-people-the-power-to-fire-sam-altman/


Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella reportedly “furious” following Altman's dramatic departure from OpenAI Friday. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s president and three senior researchers have resigned.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sam-altman-ousted-what-happened/


Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s New Interim CEO?

Mira Murati was elevated from OpenAI’s CTO to its interim leader after CEO Sam Altman was ousted Friday. Like all the company’s leaders she believes that artificial general intelligence is within reach.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-ceo-who-is-mira-murati/


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Is Out After Losing Confidence of Board

The board of ChatGPT's creator OpenAI says the company's board lost confidence in CEO Sam Altman. Mira Murati, previously CTO, will serve as the company's leader until it finds a permanent replacement.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-is-out-after-losing-confidence-of-board/


Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out

Two new tools using DeepMind’s music generation algorithm Lyria let anyone make YouTube shorts using the AI-generated vocals of Demi Lovato, T-Pain, Troye Sivan and others. It’s haunting.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepminds-ai-pop-star-clone-will-freak-you-out/


The Case for Using AI to Log Your Every Living Moment

Sam Liang, CEO of Otter, argues that life would be better if algorithms logged every spoken word so life events past can be lived and explored again.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-for-using-ai-to-log-your-every-living-moment/


Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol

Common Sense Media’s first ratings for chatbots and other AI services warn parents that AI image generators and Snapchat’s My AI chatbot may not be safe for kids.

https://www.wired.com/story/parental-advisory-chatbots-children-sex-and-alcohol/


YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators

YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-shorts-challenges-tiktok-with-music-making-ai-for-creators/


The SAG Deal Sends a Clear Message About AI and Workers

The agreement between Hollywood actors, studios, and streamers isn’t perfect. But it could set the tone for how future labor movements confront changes brought about by artificial intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-actors-sag-artificial-intelligence-contract/


The US Wants China to Start Talking About AI Weapons

As the US and China meet for the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, American officials are pushing for talks on the risks posed by military use of AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-china-killer-ai-weapons-apec-talks/


Tech Disrupted Hollywood. AI Almost Destroyed It

Streaming invigorated the film and TV industry and sent established studios scrambling. That was before AI sparked one of the biggest work stoppages in Hollywood history.

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-actors-strike-ai-future-distruption/


Fei-Fei Li Started an AI Revolution By Seeing Like an Algorithm

Researcher Fei-Fei Li’s ImageNet project provided the feedstock for the deep learning boom that brought the world ChatGPT and other world-changing AI systems.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-fei-fei-li-ai-revolution-seeing-imagenet-algorithm/


How to Use Google Bard to Find Your Stuff in Gmail and Docs

The new extensions released for Google’s chatbot are clunky, but they might be helpful with a hefty dose of patience.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-bard-gmail-docs-ai/


Graphcore Was the UK's AI Champion—Now It’s Scrambling to Stay Afloat

The British chipmaker wanted to challenge the dominance of Nvidia, but having been left out of government AI projects, is urgently looking to raise money.

https://www.wired.com/story/graphcore-uk-ai-champion-scrambling-to-stay-afloat/


Generative AI Has Ushered In the Next Phase of Digital Spirituality

From the astrology software of the 1970s to the Co-Star app, spirituality has proliferated online. Now, large language models can find overlooked ways to connect with a higher plane.

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-spirituality-tarot/


New Pixels, New Assistant, but the Same Old Google

This week, we recap all the hardware and GenAI announcements from Google, and square them with the company’s ongoing antitrust woes over its search products.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-615/


Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating

ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-chatgpt-is-coming-for-sales-jobs/


The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind

Magic Editor and Audio Magic Eraser give you exciting (and kind of scary) new powers over your photos and videos.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-pixel-8-magic-editor-audio-magic-eraser-best-take/


Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up

Google is adding AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to the humble Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in documents and emails.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-multi-modal-upgrade-bard-generative-ai/


AI Chatbots Are Learning to Spout Authoritarian Propaganda

Regimes in China and Russia are rushing to repress what chatbots can say. It's an early warning about a new frontier of online censorship.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-censorship-china-freedom-house/


How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People

Journalist Taylor Lorenz talks about her new book, Extremely Online, and what the rise of internet creators means for all of our increasingly digital lives.

https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-23/


Voice Actors Are Bracing to Compete With Talking AI

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it easier to clone and generate voices. It has huge implications for voice actors.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-voice-actors-jobs-threat/


AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-algorithms-are-biased-against-skin-with-yellow-hues/


How to Use ChatGPT’s New Image Features

OpenAI’s new image analysis update for its chatbot is both impressive and frightening. Here’s how to use it, and some advice for your experiments.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-plus-image-feature-openai/


FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Vans Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris

FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery vans with expert care.

https://www.wired.com/story/fedexs-new-robot-loads-delivery-vans-like-its-playing-3d-tetris/


The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg's Answer to ChatGPT

Meta's AI assistant can do things like suggest travel plans in a group chat. The company also announced a string of chatbots modeled on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-chatbot-is-mark-zuckerbergs-answer-to-chatgpt/


This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark

Startup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-autonomous-drone-for-cops-can-track-you-in-the-dark/


Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool

Stock-photo giant Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to build an image generator. Just like with other tools of its ilk, questions remain about who should get credit for the pictures it dreams up.

https://www.wired.com/story/getty-images-generative-ai-photo-tool/


FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training

The FBI makes heavy use of face recognition services like that of controversial startup Clearview AI, but 95 percent of the agents using them haven’t completed training on the technology.

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-agents-face-recognition-without-proper-training/


Inside the Senate's Private AI Meeting With Tech's Billionaire Elites

Dozens of US senators listened quietly as tech titans and AI ethicists schooled them on the “civilizational risks” of generative AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/senate-ai-forum-musk-zuckerberg/


The AI Detection Arms Race Is On

Gen Alpha is quickly developing tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-detection-chat-gpt-college-students/


The AI Hype Train Has Stalled in China

Chinese artificial intelligence startups say uncertain regulation, chip shortages, and a slowing economy will make it tough to compete.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-hype-train-stalled-in-china/