Meta’s Muse was among the hottest topics on corporate earnings calls in recent weeks. Meta has claimed that the agentic AI tool, which lets users…
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An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
They asked the AI model to choose a treatment from 19 options in a spreadsheet. A veterinary surgeon first performed a craniotomy on the mouse…
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on Uncanny Valley, Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer dive into our scoop on how a defense contractor connected Claude Code to…
A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by…
The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself
Earlier this year, Apple’s security team said that some of the issues formal verification uncovered in its “corecrypto” library, which is used for encryption, could…
Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
A few weeks ago, French company Mistral released an early version of its new artificial intelligence model, nicknamed Le Chonk. At the time, the company…
I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock
I am scheduled to die on August 10, 2060, at the age of 74. So says my iPhone screen, where Death Clock, an AI-powered longevity…
I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
They had models guess, for example, who would win the NBA Championship and who President Trump would meet with. “Very quickly we started to realize…
Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
As staff at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of Macmillan Publishers headed into work one morning in January 2024, they filed past something strange on the…
AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Humans Might Not Be Ready
EM1 has contracts with around a hundred government agencies and school districts, but none are using it to automate their extreme weather alerts just yet.…