Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…The arrival of autonomous AI agents (also known as agentic AI)—which go much further than chatbots by carrying out tasks unsupervised—as well as the improvement of reasoning models—which break…
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…And it basically uses AI agents to do the work of human analysts that would typically be involved in venture deal making. If you put in a startup's pitch deck, out…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…Even though the AI is literally assuming the role of the teacher? Well, no—because it is not. These agentic AIs produced by companies like Efekta are not going to have some…
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
…Over the past few years, several companies have jumped into the race to develop agentic AI models. But when gathering data, they have typically tapped volunteers, sometimes paid, who are willing to…
Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day
…A girl at an anti-ICE protest dragging an ICE agent piñata Last AI prompt: “Vegan chickpea recipe garlic eggplant tahini” My AI history is all just random food assortments. I know…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform The Tesla Influencers Leaving the ‘Cult’ Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest You can follow Brian Barrett on…
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
…And that makes sense, because you still need people managing the AI agents, but if AI agents can do the work of more junior employees, then perhaps you need less of them…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
…play with in order to make agents slightly less bad?” Luccioni is also interested in sussing out the energy needs of different types of AI tools, such as speech-to-text translation…
Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
…whether it was AI-generated using Anthropic’s Claude agent proved inconclusive. “It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of AI plagiarism—we don’t…
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
…Earlier this year, WIRED spoke with tech reporters who openly embrace AI to write and edit stories. Independent journalist Alex Heath gives his reporting notes and other documents to an AI agent…