One of the first things I did when I left my full-time job at WIRED was give Claude Cowork access to my email and calendar.…
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Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Voice assistants handling phone calls is a little more accepted today than back in the Duplex days. Call screening features abound—whether on a Pixel, Samsung,…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an…
A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While
As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday,…
AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
This week I bring news of a daring casino caper hatched by a pair of rogue AI agents—as well as the clever trick that revealed…
The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
Recently, warnings from researchers inside the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that…
AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire
AT&T, which already shed more than half of its workforce over the past decade, says it’s going to continue laying off staff as it gears…
How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement
In May, Apple agreed to pay out $250 million as part of a class action lawsuit over claims the company overhyped its Apple Intelligence tools,…