You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week,…
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How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer
It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are…
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When…
A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of its AI…
AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile…
A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk…
This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
Artificial intelligence agents might occasionally get confused and hack into other computers, but Anthropic thinks it has a way to unleash the little rascals into…
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code…