Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
…In a statement, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro says, “These allegations misrepresent the reality of our work and we will fight them.” Speaking with WIRED, Ben Winters, CFA’s director of AI and…
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The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
…One of LinkerBot’s current strategies is to tailor its hands for use in sophisticated manufacturing facilities, especially as the Chinese economy looks to upgrade its factories. The company is even using…
Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…WIRED reviewed Palantir software demos, public documentation, and Pentagon records that together paint the clearest picture to date of how American military officials may be using AI chatbots, including what kinds of…
It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
…Meta’s Ray-Ban and Oakley AI smartglasses have an image problem—for good reason. More than 70 civil society groups, including the ACLU and the National Organization for Women, sent a…
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…GitHub is only the latest on the group’s long list of victims, which has also included AI firm OpenAI and the data contracting firm Mercor. “It may be their biggest one…
The MacBook Pro M5 Max Is So Fast, It's Hard to Know How to Test It
…I tested the AI capabilities of the GPU using the Geekbench AI benchmark, which tests speed in a number of real-time, machine-learnings tasks such as object detection, facial recognition, and…
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
…xAI made national headlines in 2024 after it began to set up gas turbines at its first data center campus in the city, Colossus 1, to quickly develop Grok, its AI. Community…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
…Morin also expects that the foundation will tout OpenClaw as an exemplar of beneficial AI. “The vision of the foundation is to bring people closer to AI,” he says. “In the United…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…AI gives us a massive advantage in the B2B market,” says Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications. “Companies want to use technologies their workers are already familiar with.” OpenAI’s strategy…