OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding
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
An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots
Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Open Hardware
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Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
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
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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
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
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Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
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
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Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late
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
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The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory
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
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The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US
New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Race Is On
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival
While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Politics / Policy, Chips Down
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Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
Politics, Takeover
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What Is the Meta AI Button in WhatsApp, and How Do I Remove It?
Meta’s chatbot is rolling out in more countries. Here’s what you need to know.
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Gear / Products, Gear / Products / Apps, What’s That?
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This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence
A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy.
Science, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Singularity
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