​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. 

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Security, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News, Politics / Policy, Business / Computers and Software, ICE’d Out 

​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.” 

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Security, Security / Security News, Honeypots 

​A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand. 

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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. 

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Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Gear / Products / Apps, Gear / Products, Helping Hand 

​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. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Next Top Model 

​Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Open Hardware 

​Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools. 

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Science, Science / Physics and Math, Artificial Intelligence 

​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. 

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Politics, Takeover 

​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. 

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Security / Privacy, Security / Security News, Business / Artificial Intelligence, YikesGPT 

​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. 

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Science, Science / Environment, Miner Harm 

​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. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab 

​New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Race Is On 

​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. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Politics / Policy, Chips Down 

​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. 

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Politics, Takeover 

​Meta’s chatbot is rolling out in more countries. Here’s what you need to know. 

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Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Gear / Products, Gear / Products / Apps, What’s That? 

​A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots. 

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Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab 

​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. 

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Science, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Singularity