Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling…
Category: Primers
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling…
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with…
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage…
The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals
In recent months, the Trump administration has opened a deregulatory floodgate in the name of building more data centers. Among other things, this has involved…
WIRED Roundup: Gemini 3 Release, Nvidia Earnings, Epstein Files Fallout
In today’s episode, host Zoë Schiffer is joined by senior writer Max Zeff to discuss five stories you need to know about this week—from the…
Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?
Whether it’s teenagers reviving the Benadryl TikTok challenge or people signing up for an out-of-body experience program previously used by the CIA, some of us…
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed…
A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
An OpenAI safety research leader who helped shape ChatGPT’s responses to users experiencing mental health crises announced her departure from the company internally last month,…
A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home
Azalia King moved into an upstate New York home surrounded by sprawling cattle pastures around 1965, about the time that mass production of the world’s…