When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make a major…
Author: Steven Levy
Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy…
The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
Anthropic is locked in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and leads the pack in researching how models…
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking…
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…
Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
“I’ve tried different brands of hearing aids, and they’re good, but they’re not this good,” says Martin in a Zoom interview. He visited the team…
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps…
Alex Karp Goes to War
Alex Karp and I would not seem to have much in common. I work for WIRED, which does tough reporting on Trumpworld; Karp is the…
The Man Who Invented AGI
Wang, who now teaches at Temple University, says he only vaguely remembers the discussion but says he might have suggested some alternatives. More importantly, he…