‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which…
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WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about one author's journey to flee the US, social media surveillance, chatbots and the world of AI, and conspiracy theories for an autism cure.…
Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’
A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5X faster” according to an internal message obtained by 404…
This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment
Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open…
OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold
Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had created an internal tool called DocuGPT. He might have preferred that…
Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to ‘Make Us Happy’
At OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” the pair are working to…
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System
OpenAI didn’t share details around any revenue-share agreements with Canva, Zillow, Spotify, and the other apps it highlighted today. The new SDK announcement signals a deeper commitment…
OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI
This deal is just the latest in a string of data center investments involving OpenAI and other tech firms. Shortly after his inauguration in January, US president Donald Trump announced…
WIRED Roundup: The New Fake World of OpenAI’s Social Video App
Manisha Krishnan: Yeah, this season has ... I mean, this is the first time I've watched in 15 years. But this season has been pretty spot on. It's almost like they're reading WIRED and…
Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible
Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be…
Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model generating charts with obviously inaccurate…
OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of…
Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom…
Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye
Regulation of dark patterns has been proposed and is being discussed in both the US and Europe. De Freitas says regulators also should look at whether AI tools introduce more subtle—and…
FabriX Explores Digital Boundaries in Paris With Germanier, Alainpaul, Caroline Hu and Didu
PARIS — The Hong Kong government-backed digital fashion initiative FabriX returned to Paris Fashion Week for the third time with a lineup of designers for “Tomorrow Was: Fragments of…
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OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
OpenAI officially launched Sora in December of last year. Initially, people could only access it via a web page, but it was soon incorporated directly into the ChatGPT app. At the time,…
Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab
Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days. The small startup is shutting down, and its assets are being sold to a new…
Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history and future. Source link
Depict AI’s New Search Tool Wants to Help Consumers Shop With Intention
LONDON — The search engine platform Depict AI is stepping into the world of e-commerce with its latest launch, GPT Search. The new tool is meant to help shoppers and brands consume more…
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Iwuala, who now works as a professional translator between English and Igbo, said the users doing the most damage are inexperienced and see AI translations as a way to quickly increase the…
Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at…
This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw
Existing methods for training robotic AI models, such as having algorithms learn to control a particular system through teleoperation or in simulation, do not generate enough data, Pathak…
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most…
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for…