A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

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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

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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

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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/


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

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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/


Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts

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The NotebookLM tool generates AI-hosted audio podcasts on any topic. Its latest update allows users to enter prompts to personalize the output. I tried it out.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-notebooklm-customize-ai-podcast/


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

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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/


Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

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She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-marissa-mayer-yahoo-sunshine-ai/


Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

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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/


Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They're Under Fire for Bias

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Human rights groups have launched a new legal challenge against the use of algorithms to detect error and fraud in France's welfare system, amid claims that single mothers are disproportionately affected.

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-policed-welfare-systems-for-years-now-theyre-under-fire-for-bias/


Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

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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

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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/


This Talking Pet Collar Is Like a Chatbot for Your Dog

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A new smart collar aims to give pet owners the ability to talk to their fur babies. Or at least fake it.

https://www.wired.com/story/shazam-talking-pet-collar-a-chatbot-for-your-cat-or-dog/


These Smart Glasses Will Read Your Emotions, Watch What You Eat

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A new type of smart glasses from Emteq Labs have cameras pointed inwards, aiming to track your life and quantify how you’re feeling—and what you’re eating.

https://www.wired.com/story/emteq-smart-glasses-read-emotions-watch-what-you-eat/


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

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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/


It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

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Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.

https://www.wired.com/story/cybercheck-crime-reports-prosecutions/


Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

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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

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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

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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/


Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

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Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.

https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scams-go-high-tech/


OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch

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OpenAI promised payouts to custom GPT creators. Now most are turning to outside sources for revenue.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-store/


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

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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?

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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/


How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

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It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton change broader scientific incentives?

https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-ai-nobel-prizes-could-change-the-focus-of-research/


Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

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Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-agents-shopping-guides-rufus/


Ring’s New AI Search Tool Lets You Easily Scan Videos—With Mixed Results

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The Amazon-owned home-surveillance business will offer users the ability to search footage for specific objects and actions. WIRED gave it a try.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ring-new-ai-video-search-tool-mixed-results/


The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin

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The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations.

https://www.wired.com/story/roli-airwave-ai-music-teacher/


The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

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OpenAI built a reputation for making bold research bets before others. After a recent brain drain, it needs to attract a new generation of researchers to keep this going.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-departures-research-rivals-artificial-intelligence/


Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

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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/


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

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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

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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/


Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

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The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-movie-gen-ai-model/


AI's Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries?

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Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-summaries-make-us-dumber/


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

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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/


OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

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ChatGPT’s new canvas interface can suggest improvements to writing and code as well as make in-line changes.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-canvas-openai/


Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions

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Launched in 2017, Google Lens processes 20 billion visual searches a month. Now it will work with video and voice, too.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-lens-multimodal-search/


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

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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/


How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google's NotebookLM

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A little-known AI notebook tool from Google is going viral for its Audio Overviews that mimic the speech cadence of podcasters. Here’s how to try it out.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-podcast-google-notebooklm/


Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills.

https://www.wired.com/story/mustafa-suleyman-interview-microsoft-ai-ceo-copilot/


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

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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

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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/


An ‘iPhone of AI’ Makes No Sense. What Is Jony Ive Really Building?

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LoveFrom is working with OpenAI to build AI devices that are less “socially disruptive” than the iPhone. Is Ive looking for absolution or a new computing soul?

https://www.wired.com/story/jony-ive-iphone-of-ai/


Chat Podcasts Rule the Market—and Always Will

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“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn't mean the industry isn't innovating.

https://www.wired.com/story/dial-up-eric-eddings-hartbeat-podcasts/


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

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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

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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/


Is AI More Sustainable if You Generate it Underwater?

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AI takes a lot of energy to run, but underwater data centers might not be the answer.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-660/


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

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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/


OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company

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In a letter to the OpenAI team posted on X, Murati wrote that “this moment feels right” to step down.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-cto-mira-murati-is-leaving-the-company/


Meta Teaches Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Some New AI Tricks

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The on-board Meta AI agent can now set a reminder to buy whatever the camera is pointed at, among other enhancements.

https://www.wired.com/story/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-connect-2024/


The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

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A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way.

https://www.wired.com/story/molmo-open-source-multimodal-ai-model-allen-institute-agents/


Meta Connect 2024: How to Watch and What to Expect

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage Wednesday morning to deliver a keynote address about all things AR and VR, chatbots, headsets, smart glasses, and generative AI. Here’s a preview.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-connect-2024-what-to-expect/


Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback

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Microsoft’s deal to bring back a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor is just one part of Big Tech’s quid pro quo with nuclear power.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-boom-is-raising-hopes-of-a-nuclear-comeback/


Use Zoom’s AI Companion to Take Notes and Summarize Meetings

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The videoconferencing app has an AI-powered agent built in. It can generate summaries, tell you who talked the most, and even gauge what the emotional tone of the meeting was.

https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-ai-companion-take-notes-summarize-meetings/


I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus

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Neurable’s MW75 Neuro is an everyday brain-computer interface that aims to boost your productivity. It also raises questions about data privacy.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-brain-tracking-device-wants-to-help-you-work-smarter/


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

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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/


New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free

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“The path we’re on isn’t sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping. Here’s his plan to course-correct.

https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/


Welcome to the Era of ‘Deep Doubt’

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AI has scrambled our ability to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic. But there are tools and techniques to help stay grounded in truth.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfakes-deep-doubt-era-artificial-intelligence/


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

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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/


Meta Connect 2024: How to Watch and What to Expect

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage on September 25 to deliver a keynote address about all things AR and VR, chatbots, headsets, smart glasses, and generative AI. Here’s a preview.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-connect-2024-what-to-expect/


Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok

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The TikTok owner’s newest board member revels in challenging the establishment.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-xavier-niel-can-do-for-tiktok/


Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules

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A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them.

https://www.wired.com/story/content-creators-in-the-adult-industry-want-a-say-in-ai-rules/


The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change

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A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/united-nations-artificial-intelligence-report/


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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/


What Is a Copilot+ PC? Explaining Microsoft’s AI Term for Windows Laptops

Microsoft aimed to revolutionize its Windows operating system with this AI-soaked laptop certification. It’s still a work in progress.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-copilot-plus-pc/


OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum

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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/


Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

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Plus: Meta’s AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones.

https://www.wired.com/story/audible-audiobook-narrators-ai-voice-clones/


AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

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The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry.

https://www.wired.com/story/shein-is-officially-the-biggest-polluter-in-fast-fashion-ai-is-making-things-worse/


The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder

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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/


Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI

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This week, Reddit solved the long-running Celebrity Number Six mystery, but it almost got derailed thanks to accusations that the missing piece was made with AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-celebrity-number-six-ai/


OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step

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The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-o1-strawberry-problem-reasoning/


OpenAI Announces a New AI Model That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step

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The ChatGPT maker reveals details of OpenAI-o1, internally code-named Strawberry, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-o1-strawberry-problem-reasoning/


How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us

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This week, we talk about the new iPhone 16 and its many AI tricks. Some of them are impressive, some of them are meh, all of them are very Apple.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-658/


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

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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/


Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

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Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-private-cloud-compute-ai/


Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here's How It Actually Works

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Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple's Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-private-cloud-compute-ai/


An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job

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A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences.

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-bot-named-james-has-my-old-local-news-job/


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

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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?

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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

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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/


James Earl Jones' Darth Vader Has Already Been Immortalized With AI

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James Earl Jones died Monday at the age of 93. But long before he did, he gave Lucasfilm permission to recreate his iconic Darth Vader voice for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi.

https://www.wired.com/story/james-earl-jones-darth-vader-death-artificial-intelligence/


This iPhone ‘Supercycle’ May Not Be So Super

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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

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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/


New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage

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Despite its limitations, the makers of MarioVGG think AI video could one day replace game engines.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-ai-model-can-simulate-super-mario-bros-after-watching-gameplay-footage/


Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

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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/


The US Needs Deepfake Porn Laws. These States Are Leading the Way

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Legislation addressing the crisis of deepfake porn is being proposed, passing, and failing at the state level all over the US. WIRED is keeping track of it all.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-ai-porn-laws/


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

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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/


NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose

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Last weekend several authors cut ties with National Novel Writing Month after the nonprofit issued a statement seemingly greenlighting the use of AI in writing.

https://www.wired.com/story/nanowrimo-organizers-classist-and-ableist-to-condemn-ai/


A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical

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The Dataset Providers Alliance calls for creators and rights holders to be able to opt in to having their material used for training purposes.

https://www.wired.com/story/dataset-providers-alliance-ethical-generative-ai-licensing/


AI-Fakes Detection Is Failing Voters in the Global South

With generative AI affecting politics worldwide, researchers face a “detection gap,” as the biases built into systems mean tools for identifying fake content often work poorly or not at all in the Global South.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-detection-gap/


Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

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This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data. Major publishers and platforms like The New York Times and Facebook have already opted out.

https://www.wired.com/story/applebot-extended-apple-ai-scraping/


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

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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/


Generative AI Transformed English Homework. Math Is Next

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ByteDance’s Gauth app scans math homework and provides thorough, often correct, answers using AI. Millions have already downloaded it for free.

https://www.wired.com/story/gauth-ai-math-homework-app/


The Plaud NotePin Is an AI Notetaker That Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Your Entire Life

Plaud’s AI-powered NotePin records and transcribes all the conversations around you. The company envisions using that data in the future to construct your digital twin.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaud-note-pin-ai-wearable/


The Apartment Rental Market Is Rigged by Algorithms, a DOJ Lawsuit Alleges

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The US Department of Justice claims that a company called RealPage is responsible for price-fixing across millions of apartment rental units nationwide.

https://www.wired.com/story/realpage-antitrust-lawsuit/


A Popular iOS Illustration App Is Saying No to Generative AI

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“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/


This Political Startup Wants to Help Progressives Win … With AI-Generated Ads

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BattlegroundAI promises to make life easier for overstretched and underfunded campaigns. No MAGA types allowed.

https://www.wired.com/story/battelgroundai-ai-progressive-political-ads/


Stadiums Are Embracing Face Recognition. Privacy Advocates Say They Should Stick to Sports

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Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues.

https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-stadiums-protest/


An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments

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Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-scientist-ubc-lab/


The US Government Wants You—Yes, You—to Hunt Down Generative AI Flaws

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AI ethics nonprofit Humane Intelligence and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology are launching a series of contests to get more people probing for problems in generative AI systems.

https://www.wired.com/story/nist-humane-intelligence-generative-ai-red-team-contest/


Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

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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

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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/


What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It?

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Google is rolling out this new voice assistant, and now you can have real-time, natural conversations with its chatbot. Here’s what it’s like.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-gemini-live/


Researchers Have Ranked AI Models Based on Risk—and Found a Wild Range

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Studies suggest that regulations could be tightened to head off AI misbehavior.

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


Your Photos Aren’t Real

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/


Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2: Specs, Features, Release Date

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The Pixel 9 series now features four phones, including the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, alongside the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2.

https://www.wired.com/story/made-by-google-pixel-9-phones-pixel-watch-3-pixel-buds-pro-2/


He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He's Doing the Real Thing

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Mike Rianda’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a sci-fi comedy about a family fighting back against Silicon Valley tech. As animators gear up to battle Hollywood studios, it’s becoming a fable.

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-animators-fight-artificial-intelligence-labor-mike-rianda/


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

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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/


Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

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Attacks on Microsoft’s Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-copilot-phishing-data-extraction/


OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode

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The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-voice-mode-emotional-attachment/


Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

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This week, we talk about the current trend of Big Tech acqui-hiring key talent from smaller AI companies.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-654/


Generative AI Has a "Shoplifting" Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It

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Bill Gross’ ProRata, which has struck deals with partners like Time and Universal Music Group, has a strategy for making AI powerhouses pay for content.

https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gross-prorata-generative-ai-business/


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

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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

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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/


Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs

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The video-conferencing app is trying to create an "everything workplace" app in a crowded market.

https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-is-going-after-google-and-microsoft-with-ai-driven-docs/


A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI

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Researchers have developed a way to tamperproof open source large language models to prevent them from being coaxed into, say, explaining how to make a bomb.

https://www.wired.com/story/center-for-ai-safety-open-source-llm-safeguards/


Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government

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The chipmaker, which has fallen behind competitors, is slashing 15 percent of its workforce.

https://www.wired.com/story/intel-job-cuts/


To Lead in AI, the US Needs a Silicon Revolution

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US Commerce Department undersecretary Laurie E. Locascio says America needs to invent new chip manufacturing techniques.

https://www.wired.com/story/laurie-locascio-interview-ai-silicon-revolution/


Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes

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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/


Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

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OpenAI’s newest model is “a data hoover on steroids,” says one expert—but there are still ways to use it while minimizing risk.

https://www.wired.com/story/can-chatgpt-4o-be-trusted-with-your-private-data/


Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck

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The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant. But it doesn’t help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

https://www.wired.com/story/friend-ai-pendant/


Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

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Meta's AI Studio will let users build virtual characters, with a few limitations.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-studio-instagram-chatbots/


Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

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DC went to YC to talk OS.

https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-ai-y-combinator/


Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It's Calling Again

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In a recently uncovered 1983 speech, Steve Jobs predicted the ubiquity of personal computers. In 2024, AI has brought us to another inflection point.

https://www.wired.com/story/steve-jobs-speech-personal-computers-ai/


Video Game Performers Are Going on Strike Over AI

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The union representing the voice and motion-capture actors who work in video games authorized the strike after talks with gaming companies stalled over the use of AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-voice-actors-are-going-on-strike-over-ai/


SearchGPT Is OpenAI's Direct Assault on Google

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The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers.

https://www.wired.com/story/searchgpt-openai-search-engine-generative-ai/


New Jersey's $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter

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The Garden State has enacted a hefty new tax credit specifically for AI businesses. But tax incentives—particularly around data centers—haven’t always created large numbers of jobs.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-jerseys-500-million-dollar-bid-to-become-an-ai-epicenter/


Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot

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Google’s new advance combines a large language model with a self-learning AI. The technique could address some shortcomings with AI—although there’s a catch.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-alphaproof-ai-math/


At The 2024 Summer Olympics, AI Is Watching You

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A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.

https://www.wired.com/story/at-the-olympics-ai-algorithms-are-watching-you/


The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

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States across the US are seeking to criminalize certain uses of AI-generated content. Civil rights groups are pushing back, arguing that some of these new laws conflict with the First Amendment.

https://www.wired.com/story/aclu-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-free-speech/


Meta's New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

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The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-llama-3/


Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars

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Algorithms designed to handle a car after it loses traction could potentially intervene on behalf of human drivers.

https://www.wired.com/story/toyota-stanford-ai-tandem-drifting-cars/


AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

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A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI for game development.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/


For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

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Six years after Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu prepares to release his adaptation of one of Broadway’s biggest musicals. From a table at his family’s famous Chinese restaurant, he opens up about his childhood among the titans of tech—and why filmmakers shouldn’t be afraid of AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/jon-chu-director-wicked-crazy-rich-asians-silicon-valley/


TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections

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TikTok labels AI-generated material and warns about potentially deceptive content. A Lite version popular in the Global South, though, lacks these and other safeguards.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-lite-global-south/


Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win

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From gymnast-tracking to pole vault measurements mid-jump, the watch brand’s Swiss Timing division has a whole host of new timing tech for Paris 2024.

https://www.wired.com/story/omegas-ai-will-map-how-olympic-athletes-win/


We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

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We had a specialty chatbot to curate perfect days out in London and New York for under $100 each. We're still recovering from our journeys.

https://www.wired.com/story/littlefoot-ai-chatbot-travel-planner/


The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

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Tech companies—including OpenAI—are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too.

https://www.wired.com/ai-powered-coding/


OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model

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With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-mini/


The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’

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This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-651/


OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough

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The company announced a new technique to make the workings of its systems more transparent, but people familiar with OpenAI say more oversight is needed.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-safety-transparency-research/


The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV

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This summer’s Games are going to look bigger and better and louder than ever, thanks to key innovations in the broadcast booth and in the cloud.

https://www.wired.com/story/paris-olympics-broadcast-tech-ai/


Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

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Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvidia-anthropic/


Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

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Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-see-is-a-computational-process-if-you-know-how-to-look/


Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

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Robotics researchers are exploring how large language models can give physical machines more smarts.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-ai-robot/


OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion

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Sam Altman is touting AI’s ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks.

https://www.wired.com/story/thrive-ai-openai-artificial-intelligence-persuasion/


AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era

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Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-energy-demands-water-impact-internet-hyper-consumption-era/


AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

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Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-aspects-of-teaching-should-remain-human/


How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results

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A fake article about Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife buying a $4.8 million Bugatti with US aid was promoted by bots, Russia state media, and pro-Trump influencers on X. It’s part of a network of websites supercharged by AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-russian-disinformation-zelensky-bugatti/


His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Home

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When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-man-bought-a-home-by-suing-people-who-stole-his-galaxy-wolf-art/


AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

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The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/


The Words That Give Away Generative AI Text

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From “delves” to “showcasing,” certain words boomed in usage after LLMs became mainstream.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-common-words-study/


The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song

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Song generators are in hot water over alleged copyright infringement, but the AI tool Jen was trained on licensed material. We asked pro musicians to test it, and the results were uninspiring.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-new-ethical-ai-music-generator-cant-write-a-halfway-decent-song/


How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

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Generative AI is seeping into the core of your phone, but what does that mean for privacy? Here’s how Apple’s unique AI architecture compares to the “hybrid” approach adopted by Samsung and Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-android-hybrid-ai-privacy/


AI Is Rewriting Meme History

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TikTok’s latest trend involves videos of people traveling back in time to interrupt the viral memes of yore. The results are uncanny.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-rewriting-meme-history/


Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

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Google adjusted its policies to target AI spam earlier this year, but plagiarizing content still comes up higher in search results months later—and SEO experts aren’t sure why.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-spam-original-reporting-news-results/


Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

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WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

https://www.wired.com/story/quora-chatbot-poe-download-paywalled-articles/


He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It

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Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape.

https://www.wired.com/story/user-owned-ai-illia-polosukhin-open-source-web3/


This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human

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Bland AI’s customer services and sales bot is the latest example of “human-washing” in AI. Experts warn against the consequences of blurred reality.

https://www.wired.com/story/bland-ai-chatbot-human/


French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

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With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard left, the AI industry is starting to freak out.

https://www.wired.com/story/french-ai-startups-felt-unstoppable-then-came-the-election/


Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

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AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations.

https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/


OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

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Having humans rate a language model’s outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-rlhf-ai-training/


Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All

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Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-detection-get-real-labs/


With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

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Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong.

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-pushmeet-kohli-deepmind-ai-google/


The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

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How accurate are gunshot detection systems, really? For years, it's been a secret, but new reports from San Jose and NYC show these systems have operated well below their advertised accuracy rates.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gunshot-detection-accuracy-san-jose-nyc/


Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors

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The most notorious deepfake sexual abuse website is hosting altered videos originally published as part of the GirlsDoPorn operation. Experts say this new low is only the beginning.

https://www.wired.com/story/girlsdoporn-deepfake-victim-videos/


EU says Apple's App Store Is in Breach of Rules

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Apple has been warned that its App Store is in breach of EU rules, and has backtracked on plans to roll out AI tech in Europe over regulatory concerns.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-hits-a-major-roadblock-as-eu-targets-app-store/


Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

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Experts aren't unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup's practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.

https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-plagiarized-our-story-about-how-perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/


My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now

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Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity.

https://www.wired.com/story/my-memories-are-just-meta-training-data-now/


We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

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Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.

https://www.wired.com/story/were-still-waiting-for-the-next-big-leap-in-ai/


Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

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This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-648/


Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI

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Microsoft and Google have taught dozens of political groups how to use generative AI tools like their Copilot and Gemini chatbots, but the situation is a little complicated.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-microsoft-google-gen-ai-campaigns/


Neo-Nazis Are All-In On AI

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Extremists are developing their own hateful AIs to supercharge radicalization and fundraising—and are now using the tech to make weapon blueprints and bombs. And it’s going to get worse.

https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-are-all-in-on-ai/


Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

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With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneurs and politicians say local champions are needed to prevent a cultural flattening.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-scrambles-relevance-ai/


Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't Convinced

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Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users' content will be treated, after a backlash earlier this month from artists who believed their work will be used to train AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-says-it-wont-train-ai-using-artists-work-creatives-arent-convinced/


Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

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A WIRED investigation shows that the AI search startup Perplexity is surreptitiously downloading your data.

https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/


I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

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Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Lena Dunham, Roxane Gay: We’ve all agreed to be turned into AI reading companions by a mysterious company called Rebind. I report from the inside.

https://www.wired.com/story/i-am-laura-kipnis-bot-and-i-will-make-reading-sexy-and-tragic-again/


OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges

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Two organizations that handed out unconditional cash grants told WIRED that they will no longer disclose their financial statements and internal policies. Their stance follows a similar denial by OpenAI.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backed-nonprofits-transparency-pledges/


AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

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Companies aren’t replacing workers with AI yet. But they are sacrificing thousands of jobs in the race to further innovation in the technology.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-coming-for-big-tech-jobs-but-not-in-the-way-you-think/


Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers

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CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/


Sorry, VR: The Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers Are the Best Face Computer

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Finally! An AI-enabled face computer that's comfortable, useful, attractive, and not completely humiliating to wear.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ray-ban-meta-wayfarers-are-the-best-face-computer/


Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-needs-enormous-computing-power-could-light-based-chips-help/


Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War

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The United States and China appear locked in a race to weaponize four-legged robots for military applications.

https://www.wired.com/story/let-slip-the-robot-dogs-of-war/


Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones—but Maybe It Could

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Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple’s AI, so why won’t your $900 year-old model run it? Here’s why.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-wont-work-on-100s-of-millions-of-iphones-but-maybe-it-could/


No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

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Apple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that's just a hallucination, but it's working.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-intelligence-is-ai/


Reduce AI Hallucinations With This Neat Software Trick

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A buzzy process called retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, is taking hold in Silicon Valley and improving the outputs from large language models. How does it work?

https://www.wired.com/story/reduce-ai-hallucinations-with-rag/


A Blatant Attempt to Generate a 'House of the Dragon' AI Overview

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How many gallons of blood are there in the second season of House of the Dragon? How many wigs? Click here for an overview.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-blatant-attempt-to-generate-a-house-of-the-dragon-ai-overview/


As Google Targets Advertisers, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing

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Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don’t always find it helpful.

https://www.wired.com/story/as-google-ai-overview-targets-advertisers-it-could-learn-a-lot-from-bing/


AI Chatbots Are Running for Office Now

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Meet AI Steve and VIC, the chatbots running for office in 2024.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-chatbots-running-for-office/


Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product

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Other tech companies want to sell you chatbots. Apple’s demos show the value of seeing the AI as an integrated, holistic experience rather than a stand-alone app or device.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ai-feature-not-product/


The Fight Against AI Comes to a Foundational Data Set

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Long-running nonprofit Common Crawl has been a boon to researchers for years. But now its role in AI training data has triggered backlash from publishers.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fight-against-ai-comes-to-a-foundational-data-set/


Artifact’s DNA Lives on in Yahoo’s Revamped AI-Powered News App

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Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram’s cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact’s AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.

https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-news-app-relaunch-artifact/


LinkedIn’s AI Career Coaches Will See You Now

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LinkedIn’s new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters.

https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-features-career-coach-chatbot/


Thinking Different About Apple AI

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This week, we discuss how Apple’s approach to artificial intelligence differs from those of its rivals. Hint: It goes deeper than Genmoji.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-647/


If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

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The famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-ray-kurzweil/


Meet the Photographer Behind the Social Media App for Everyone Sick of Meta’s AI

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Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara promises protection, but the influx of new users is taxing her niche portfolio app.

https://www.wired.com/story/cara-portfolio-app-artificial-intelligence-jingna-zhang/


An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming

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Wyoming’s secretary of state wants the county to reject its candidacy, but the AI bot’s human “meat puppet” says everything is in order.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bot-running-for-mayor-wyoming/


Worried About AI Killing Art? This App Offers a Refuge—If Its Founder Can Keep the Lights On

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Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara promises protection, but the influx of new users is taxing her niche portfolio app.

https://www.wired.com/story/cara-portfolio-app-artificial-intelligence-jingna-zhang/


There's an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK

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If it wins, “AI Steve” will be represented by businessman Steve Endacott in Parliament. Endacott says he'll merely be a conduit, and the AI will make the policy decisions.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-candidate-running-for-parliament-uk/


The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta

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In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-tech-worlds-greatest-living-novelist-robin-sloan-goes-meta/


Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI

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Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue.

https://www.wired.com/story/danish-media-demands-a-deal-with-openai-or-else/


AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone

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Apple is limiting its new artificial intelligence features to new phones, in hopes of a sunny September.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-apples-best-shot-at-getting-you-to-upgrade-your-phone/


Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave

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Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-macos-ai-openai/


Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2024: AI Features, New Siri, Genmoji

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The company's annual developer event was stacked with demonstrations that showed off the new artificial intelligence capabilities coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/


Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI

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At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-wwdc/


AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children

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A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-secretly-training-on-real-childrens-faces/


How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable

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Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent.

https://www.wired.com/story/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-and-efficient/


The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched

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From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for the digital world. Implementing them, however, isn’t always easy.

https://www.wired.com/story/european-commission-big-tech-regulation-outlook/


Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin

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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/


Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI

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It’s OK to be doubtful of tech leaders’ grandiose visions of our AI future—but that doesn’t mean the technology won’t have a huge impact.

https://www.wired.com/story/dont-let-mistrust-of-tech-companies-blind-you-power-of-ai/


An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job

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As if trying to land a new gig isn’t demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cartoon-next-job/


US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

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Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.

https://www.wired.com/story/national-security-experts-warn-ai-giants-secrets/


OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT

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Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-offers-a-peek-inside-the-guts-of-chatgpt/


Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work

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Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-teamwork-makes-the-ai-dream-work/


Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews

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This week, we discuss the bumpy first few weeks of Google’s AI-powered summaries, and why the new feature is making us sweat.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-646/


Apple WWDC 2024: What to Expect for Software and Hardware

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The annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts Monday, June 10. Here are the new features, AI-powered and otherwise, potentially coming to your devices.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-wwdc-2024-what-to-expect/


How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI

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Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-lead-army-of-digital-sleuths-age-of-ai/


Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid

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Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.

https://www.wired.com/story/marc-andreessen-online-safety-enemy-walled-gardens/


Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work

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Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-results-copied-my-original-work/


Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco

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Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-cut-back-ai-overviews-before-pizza-glue/


OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation

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An open letter signed by former and current employees at OpenAI and other AI giants calls for whistleblower protections as the artificial intelligence rapidly evolves.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/


This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI

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Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/


AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It?

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Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-workplace-privacy-security/


The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant

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The idea of an AI beauty pageant might seem laughable or grotesque, depending on who you ask. But the World AI Creator Awards reflects something deeper about modern influencer culture.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-beauty-pageant-world-ai-creator-awards/


The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

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Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-datacenter-energy-power-grid/


Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works

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Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-broken-how-ai-works/


It's the AI Election Year

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With over 60 countries holding elections in 2024, deepfakes and robocalls are being used to manipulate voters across the world. WIRED is tracking every instance of AI interference during this critical election year.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-election-2024/


Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up

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Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, said in a blog post that the company had made adjustments to its new AI search feature after screenshots of its errors went viral.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-issues/


Foreign Influence Campaigns Don't Know How to Use AI Yet Either

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OpenAI has released its first report, which details how bad actors in Russia, China, and beyond are using AI to spread propaganda. (Poorly.)

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-threat-report-china-russia-ai-propaganda/


Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age

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Anthropic and other big AI startups are teaching chatbots “tool use,” to make them more useful in the workplace.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-entering-the-stone-age/


2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election

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AI is already being used and abused in elections around the world. From passive income scams to dead men endorsing their successors, fiction is proving stranger than reality.

https://www.wired.com/story/2024-is-the-year-of-generative-ai-elections/


How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections

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More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI's use in and around those campaigns.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-global-elections/


Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features

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Google is bringing Gemini and a slew of AI-powered features to ChromeOS, and there are about seven new Chromebooks coming this year.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-brings-gemini-to-chrome-os-and-chromebooks/


Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms

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The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms.

https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-is-building-out-the-pentagons-dream-of-deadly-drone-swarms/


Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

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Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-starts-to-sift-through-string-theorys-near-endless-possibilities/


Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI Feud Makes Her an Uncanny Folk Hero

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Scarlett Johansson’s talents once made her the ideal person to voice an AI. Now, she’s the perfect human to face off against it.

https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johanssons-openai-feud-makes-her-an-uncanny-folk-hero/


Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing

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Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing/


Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads

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Without new rules, campaigns could hoodwink voters with AI-generated ads. And no one really seems to be taking the threat seriously.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-lukewarm-fight-to-ban-deepfake-ads/


The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’

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African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week.

https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/


What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court

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If Scarlett Johansson pursues legal action against OpenAI for giving ChatGPT a voice she calls “eerily similar to mine,” she might claim the company breached her right to publicity.

https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johansson-v-openai-could-look-like-in-court/


Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads

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Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It's a test of how the company's biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-overviews-ads/


AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

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What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-black-box-ai-research-neurons-features/


Adobe's AI-Powered Generative Remove Feature in Lightroom Erases Unsightly Objects in Seconds

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Taking a cue from Google's Magic Eraser, Adobe's new trick improves on existing tools with the help of generative AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove/