The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…build one yourself and control the inputs and outputs as much as technically possible. OpenToys offers an open source, local voice AI system for toys, companions, and robots, with a choice of…
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Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI
…Yann LeCun, the AI pioneer who recently resigned as Meta’s chief AI scientist, is pursuing Project Tapestry, a massive effort among governments and private industry to join forces in building a…
Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War
…The Pentagon has been sparring with the leading AI lab for months over how its technology can be used for national security—and what the limits on that usage should be. This…
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter calling for laws requiring companies…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…The Thor chip can run powerful AI models that allow the bot to make sense of its environment and control its movements, while the body features Unitree’s motors, actuators, and sensors…
Meta Glasses Are Comfortable, Functional, and Make My Spouse Recoil in Fear
…Otherwise, they have all the specs of the Gen 2 Wayfarers, including the same Bluetooth compatibility, two-speaker and five-mic array with sliding touch and voice controls, 12-MP camera, and…
Huawei's ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet
…Lennart Heim, an independent semiconductor and AI policy analyst, says Huawei’s strategy suggests the company is running into limits on how much more performance it can squeeze out by shrinking and…
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
…and electricity needed to satisfy their new energy demands.” Experts told WIRED that this agreement was mostly symbolic, as neither data center developers nor the White House have much control over policies…
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom—Until Trump Fires Her
…It's getting more and more sophisticated, as you know, and we are seeing a plethora of ads that use AI, and it would just require disclosure, kind of like what you…
Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
…The IPO “will bring an infusion of cash that Musk will control and tap for personal and political gain,” says the loosely organized activist group Divest From Tesla. “Just as he has…