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/ 

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66f2eef434765c528a7a07dd/master/pass/three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-microsoft-ai.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66eafff0f6597d549aa61152/master/pass/ai-restaurant-host-gear-1000962620.jpg

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/ 

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e9e619aa182e027da84aa4/master/pass/UN-Report-OpenAI-Business-538247802.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e9fcc6ca863bb4c1028b62/master/pass/Business_Social_AI_2_GettyImages-dv1217028.jpg

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/ 

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66ea0e46296e1c150a6263d6/master/pass/generative-ai-teenagers.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e47eba052fbb74b59a64d8/master/pass/Gear_Audible_AI_GettyImages-1500238079.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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/ 

 AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e2a96684325d97744782e7/master/pass/GettyImages-2158469156.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e35c5c513f666b2819e780/master/pass/Monitor-Mystery-C6-Person-Culture-600578849.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e221e411ae89cc49da0490/master/pass/OpenAI-Problem-Solving-Business.jpg

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/ 

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e221e411ae89cc49da0490/master/pass/OpenAI-Problem-Solving-Business.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e1f2f13153e32af5cd679a/master/pass/2156402014

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e1f2f13153e32af5cd679a/master/pass/2156402014

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e1c227a1a147fd3f9d3ca7/master/pass/Jim-AI-News-522968774-Business.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66e0c9dc781255acddf0ea03/master/pass/AI-Lab-Emotional-Intelligence-563964985-Business-2.jpg

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?

https://media.wired.com/photos/66df7302c8c0d669c5870cac/master/pass/AI-Generated-Kamala.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66db20bfa75f9a079f412624/master/pass/Google_Robots_L1005456.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66df66a44b45d9214f4b8e41/master/pass/James-Earl-Jones-Passing-MSDEMST_EC006-GEAR.jpg

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/ 

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66df66a44b45d9214f4b8e41/master/pass/James-Earl-Jones-Passing-MSDEMST_EC006-GEAR.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66df6bb5b29805603b48a556/master/pass/iPhone-Supercycle-Business-DSC_0514.jpg

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

https://media.wired.com/photos/66db3fcaf197ff1a100fea26/master/pass/AI-Learns-Simulate-Mario-Culture-2XFKJMX.jpg

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/ 

 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/ 

 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/