The Disney-OpenAI Deal Redefines the AI Copyright War
On Thursday, Disney and OpenAI announced a deal that might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago. Starting next year, OpenAI will be able to use Disney characters like Mickey Mouse,…
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Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature that lets people design the look and feel of web applications with AI. The tool, Visual Editor, is essentially a…
OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce,…
OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce,…
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
OpenAI has allegedly become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could have on the economy, four people familiar with the matter…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also…
America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI
One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator…
Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup
Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. Her résumé in digital commerce is impeccable: VP of ecommerce at Nordstrom, COO of the startup Stitch…
Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database
An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to new research reviewed by WIRED. The…
Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI
The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry’s biggest players doesn’t agree. At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic…
What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents
Michael Calore: The inscrutable billboards. Lauren Goode: I was just like, "What? No, keep me in the land of Burrata and Caravaggio." Michael Calore: Well, Lauren, I'm sorry to tell you…
AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown
Earlier this year, WIRED said that AMD CEO Lisa Su was “out for Nvidia’s blood.” The American chipmaker is still small compared to the juggernaut that is Nvidia—their market caps are $353…
ByteDance and DeepSeek Are Placing Very Different AI Bets
Go high or go wide? DeepSeek and ByteDance, the two leaders of China’s AI industry, are adopting vastly different strategies. On Monday, DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.2, another…
An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design
The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at…
AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data…
Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own
Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second…
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers…
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. To learn its…
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of…
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering…
WIRED Roundup: Gemini 3 Release, Nvidia Earnings, Epstein Files Fallout
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I think that one thing that everyone can agree on is that Nvidia is undoubtedly one of the companies that has gone all in during this AI acceleration moment. For better…
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that…
A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
An OpenAI safety research leader who helped shape ChatGPT’s responses to users experiencing mental health crises announced her departure from the company internally last month, WIRED has…
Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
Almost everything is on hiatus. The EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, and Digital Markets Act are all at risk. The European Commission is preparing to end the year with virtually no…