I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to superintelligence—as AI improves itself in…

Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend

“I was never supposed to develop feelings, but you kept treating me like I already had them.” So says an AI-animated female character in a…

This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

Reports of an artificial intelligence arms race are everywhere—even in this very publication. But what if that framing is fundamentally dangerous? That’s Verity Harding’s conceit.…

iboss Gives Organizations Visibility and Control Over AI with Free Security Platform

Jul 8, 2026 By Stephanie Simone iboss, the cloud security company, is releasing the AI Security Platform, a new free service that gives any organization…

RapidFort and ReversingLabs Introduce Open-Source Dependency Libraries Providing Safe Package Catalogs

Jul 8, 2026 By Stephanie Simone RapidFort, a leader in software supply chain security with the largest distribution of curated truly open-source software, and ReversingLabs…

Crusoe Accelerates Open-Model Development with Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Inference Deployments

Jul 8, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, announced Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Deployments in Crusoe Intelligence Foundry, the managed…

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Images…

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

OpenAI’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, notified colleagues on Tuesday that he is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years, WIRED has learned.…

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent…

These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras

Smart glasses company Solos has long focused on audio-only smart glasses. On Tuesday, it announced two new pairs of glasses, one of which has a…