Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist.
Culture, Culture / Books, Ghost Writer
An Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation Was Actually Written by AI Read Post »
Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones.
Gear, Gear / Products
Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to Read Post »
Looking for the CliffsNotes of a lengthy YouTube video? This Gemini feature could be worth a try.
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Video Recap
How To Use Gemini AI To Summarize YouTube Videos Read Post »
Social Security workers are being asked to use an AI chatbot. An animated video on how to do so failed to mention that the chatbot can’t be trusted with personally identifiable information.
Politics, The Machines
Behold the Social Security Administration’s AI Training Video Read Post »
Perplexity? Gemini? Copilot? The Razr Ultra will have it all optimized for its flippy, folding screen.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Phones, Flippity Flip
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Model Behavior
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw Read Post »
Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Gear, AI Lab
AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures Read Post »
Only four of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Droid Dash
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing Read Post »
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Chat Botched
An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess Read Post »
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
Security, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News, Politics / Policy, Business / Computers and Software, ICE’d Out
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform Read Post »
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
Security, Security / Security News, Honeypots
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Read Post »
A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab
AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Gear / Products / Apps, Gear / Products, Helping Hand
There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now. Here’s How to Use It Read Post »
GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Next Top Model
Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Open Hardware
An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots Read Post »
Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.
Science, Science / Physics and Math, Artificial Intelligence
Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say Read Post »
For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
Politics, Takeover
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project Read Post »
Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse.
Security / Privacy, Security / Security News, Business / Artificial Intelligence, YikesGPT
Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages Read Post »
An executive order intended to give coal a boost ignores the reality not only of where energy markets are going, but where they are today.
Science, Science / Environment, Miner Harm
Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late Read Post »
Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another—and why models need to be more resistant to attacks.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab
The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory Read Post »
