Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government https://media.wired.com/photos/66aa8e3631cef72722058669/master/pass/Intel-Layoffs-Business-901817232.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66aa975f20b0927818d24e50/master/pass/FF-Newsletter-Chips-America-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66aa20047f01f1ae209bcf57/master/pass/GettyImages-2149574482.jpg 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? https://media.wired.com/photos/66a95259de7479d796011bc0/master/pass/Chat_GPT_Data-Sec_166083670.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a7e6b91e667f4c276bfdb0/master/pass/friend_1-Gear.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a7fb85ec207735d8ea064f/master/pass/SIGGRAPH%202024_AI%20Studio_Header.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a403f38137c57a9c52cc3d/master/pass/Founders-Open-Source-AI-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a02c25473ac06ecbb29e7f/master/pass/Plaintext-Steve-Jobs-Business-685197025.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a2b8fab3a11f9e9384ffb0/master/pass/Video-Game-Performers-Are-Going-on-Strike-Over-AI-GettyImages-1702799898.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a29c489c6c9201fc814d97/master/pass/searchgpt_GettyImages-2153474303.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a1912871e01b39c3f5a005/master/pass/business_new_jersey_ai_hub_tax.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a13d144fe7a9aa0f395de1/master/pass/FastForward-Go-Business-1252323471.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66a0dc7c1b1aeb1c6be1151a/master/pass/GettyImages-2162271384.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669fc826e1a0a8ffb6453058/master/pass/aclu-deepfakes-freedom-of-speech.gif 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669ec6470d8bbfc56a6384e8/master/pass/Meta%20Launches%20Llama%203_h_27.RTSO8SJ0.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669a92d6f643a0ba2011922d/master/pass/TRI-Tandem-Drift-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668513aaa8e0ac3f0fbcc60f/master/pass/WIRED_VIDEOGAMES_FFAA_01.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6696f46793b5e6b71aac0cc8/master/pass/BI_JonMChu_Hasegawa_0141.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669ecc2d77dec8c54eef176f/master/pass/TikTok-Lite-Exposed-Users-Business-1602415954.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669ab9e530b3390f52524934/master/pass/VOLLEYBALL_STILL_02_16x9_02.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6699894d04f920cc8b3e53bd/master/pass/AI-Travel-Guide-Business-171273165.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/669846f926dff233a54ff10c/master/pass/AI-Coding-Agents-Fast-Forward-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6699293c2081787c6288c8a5/master/pass/GettyImages-2161841827.jpg 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’ https://media.wired.com/photos/669818e104b1a9b4668c4fc5/master/pass/Humanwashing-Gadget-Lab-GettyImages-2150824100.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6696dcbadde0cb2e990a49da/master/pass/OpenAI-Safety-Business-1933965269.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6696dc2b6a7bb10e67ef7e43/master/pass/This-Year's-Olympics-Broadcast-Will-Have-Crazy-Tech,-More-Drones,-and-Gobs-of-AI-GettyImages-2160036174.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66958889b908de73c50ff0ff/master/pass/Apple,-Nvidia,-Anthropic-Used-Thousands-of-Swiped-YouTube-Videos-to-Train-AI-GettyImages-1460873513.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668fae118600eafc56437efa/master/pass/FeelTheMachine-Lede-scaled.jpeg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66900a63fc84cb0d65446d72/master/pass/Deepmind-Robotics-Chatbot-Business-2021265856.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668f15f2556b4f26e4803b0c/master/pass/Fast-Forward-NL-Sam-Altman-Persuasive-AI-Business-1786606374.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668f02cc3e1799965539ae28/master/pass/The-Power-Requirements-of-AI-computing-GettyImages-1307986174.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668d9761f48e4b3cc92f60e6/master/pass/AI-Classroom-Culture-1516288091.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668d518cce88c8fe27276852/master/pass/How-AI-Generated-Russian-Disinformation-About-Zelensky-Ended-Up-The-Top-On-Google.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66883ed2f10af4e3cb8791d3/master/pass/culture_galaxy_wolf_art_copyright.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6688635845a09a410d1585be/master/pass/070524-security-ai-super-troops.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6688633d11fe42069b1bbd5e/master/pass/Generative-AI-Text-Ars-Business-1212105935.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66859d613395b40612858af1/master/pass/Jen-AI-Culture-1305572154.jpg 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’ https://media.wired.com/photos/6685bd65e7b2f4f052de7afa/master/pass/Apple-Intelligence-Privacy-GettyImages-2156649816.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/668499bc902a27e435275504/master/pass/cutlure_ai_meme_history_distracted_boyfriend.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6683394ad4eeb7156b02e62c/master/pass/An-AI-Spam-Blog-That's-Stealing-WIRED's-Work-Is-Outranking-Us-in-Google-News-GettyImages-1256204321.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667db06ddb113dc091549775/master/pass/Quora-Poe-AI-Business-1456118933.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667df62e23de7d260c47ef43/master/pass/GettyImages-1668149292.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667c843f2fb0c767fd870227/master/pass/business_bland_ai_callbot_lies.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667b48d38fa963efc007965f/master/pass/GettyImages-2154161022-Edit-2.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667d785123de7d260c47ef3c/master/pass/Amazon-investigating-Perplexity-Security-2P61JF6.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667cad304bc3712ac851c117/master/pass/OpenAI-Reliable-Chatbot-Business-2017675393.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667cada68bfa60f472638a77/master/pass/GettyImages-1141834958-3.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667440b91fa07790f9045d79/master/pass/David_Vintiner_WIRED_44809_2.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6679e7ea5c52e2c5621a7f57/master/pass/The-Mystery-of-AI-Gunshot-Detection-Accuracy-Is-Finally-Unraveling-Security-GettyImages-77738812.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6679ca898912e8d4dbbc079d/master/pass/062424-security-deepfakes-sex-trafficking-survivors.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667933c4f6b01a269fd1ec86/master/pass/GettyImages-2157001742.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6674be51bceccd49894c90bc/master/pass/security_perplexity_plagiarize_story.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6674bb54acbf0be0e0031ffe/master/pass/facebook%20AI-03%202.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66721e519200e31677346cff/master/pass/AI-Bot-GettyImages-177720384.jpg 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? https://media.wired.com/photos/66722467c6b03c3f86b42ff3/master/pass/Ai-Overview-Journalism-Gadget-Lab-Gear-1411671615.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66721630a97b95f445a18f45/master/pass/politics_lab_big_tech_ai_campaigns.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/667211650f046d6ed8302191/master/pass/politics_neonazi_extremist_ai_radicalization.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6672178f5a306ae960db6802/master/pass/061824-business-europe-ai.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6670a270066e0c807b9a56ab/master/pass/GettyImages-1853028477.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6670da2fed41833c92886401/master/pass/business_perplexity_ai_plagiarism.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c7786c0e3c3ad99f510cc/master/pass/laurai%20-%208.JPG 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c88b64444dfe3cde6a41b/master/pass/GettyImages-1786606042.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c7ad24d64eaede289c781/master/pass/AI-Hype-Alone-is-Already-Taking-People's-Jobs-Business-GettyImages-1672366501.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c7ea52083e728578e8233/master/pass/GettyImages-1663545689.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666e00967a365359091d8b0b/master/pass/Meta-Ray-Ban-Wayfarers-collage-062024-SOURCE-Adrienne-So.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c423d648af2caf2e33385/master/pass/PhotonicAI-crSenorSalme-Lede-scaled.jpeg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666c751aec1ba26f82849e57/master/pass/Robot-Dogs-Security-6337679.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666cd17958fe2b39972373a9/master/pass/Apple-Intelligence-Won%E2%80%99t-Work-on-Hundreds-of-Millions-of-iPhones%E2%80%94but-Maybe-It-Could-Gear.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666b5e833f3cbef36629ee0f/master/pass/Apple-WWDC24-event-photos-developers-watch-keynote-240610.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666b62fe303de6e9de9354a8/master/pass/RAG-AI-Gear-GettyImages-517207288.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666b518e50d7f61c1962563a/master/pass/house-of-the-dragon.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6668d2c81e6b62d7ba5b5387/master/pass/Ai-Overview-01.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a3a6de419292a314f6286/master/pass/Politics-Lab-AI-Candidates-Politics.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a406ecd2db4ffb305956c/master/pass/WWDC-2024-AI-Fast-Forward-Business-2156971852.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a2d831f5c6d0ce1fd5fe9/master/pass/business_common_crawl_data_ai_publishers.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a42c672c6acb6ab1d0f17/master/pass/New-Yahoo-News-App-Gear.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a388bdd8c83831dde08a7/master/pass/LinkedIn-AI-Career-Coaches-Business-94119684.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666a422f054602e761145594/master/pass/Apple-AI-Gadget-Lab-Gear.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/665f4551513621c0fca57cee/master/pass/BI_Kurzweil_Paterson_2.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6668d66f53a4082e6b5d1d6d/master/pass/061124-culture-cara-app-artists-ai.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6668d406aee9b92337513e8d/master/pass/politics_ai_chatbot_mayor_wyoming.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6668d66f53a4082e6b5d1d6d/master/pass/061124-culture-cara-app-artists-ai.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/666795bde65e6380511c27b8/master/pass/AI-STEVE-UK-Candidate-Site-Politics.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6667491d3d4bcd8d4d1db209/master/pass/Culture_WIRED_Robin_Sloan__003.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66679204b476d817dc719af5/master/pass/OpenA_-Danish-Media-Deal-Business-1258297742.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66677c027718ee8981f0c384/master/pass/Apple-Intelligence-Upgrade.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66678da17718ee8981f0c386/master/pass/Apple-AI-WWDC-2024-Business-2156972167.jpg 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/
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