The Trump administration has finalized a plan to address the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence models, a White House official confirmed to…
Category: Primers
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
Mistral is having a moment. With access to less funding and fewer compute resources than OpenAI and Anthropic, the French AI lab has lagged behind…
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
Any AI looking at the footage would face the same issue, even for a tournament as long as the Main Event. More Than Just Cookies…
How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot
Last week, US regulators banned a wide variety of Chinese-made robots from being imported to the United States because of concerns about national security. Saurabh…
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
If you want a clear understanding of how AI is affecting Hollywood … good luck. Some of the industry loathes the technology, with screenwriters, directors,…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
Joe Allen wants to know what the robot’s name is. At first, I think the double whiskey we downed at the hotel bar must be…
AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
“The restaurants ended up spending more time smoothing over the problem they created,” says Michael Schatzberg, cofounder of Branded Hospitality, which invests in food-service-technology companies.…
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s…
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In…