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The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts…

Baidu’s robotaxis froze in traffic, creating chaos

Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu froze in a major city on Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them on highways, and causing at least one accident in snarled traffic. Police…

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

Sátántango is considered a holy rite for hardcore cinephiles. It also helped me confront my dwindling attention span.

I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong

Want to know what our reviewers have actually tested and picked as the best TVs, headphones, and laptops? Ask ChatGPT, and it'll give you the wrong answers.

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

Gradient Labs uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.4 mini and nano to power AI agents that automate banking support workflows with low latency and high reliability.

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

Anthropic is having a month

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent

After Anthropic released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update, users quickly discovered that it contained a package with a source map file containing its TypeScript codebase, with one person on X calling attention to the leak…

OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

You can now use ChatGPT with Apple’s CarPlay

ChatGPT is now accessible from your CarPlay dashboard if you have iOS 26.4 or newer and the latest version of the ChatGPT app, 9to5Mac reports. Apple's recently launched iOS 26.4 update added support for "voice-based…

Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

The Galaxy S26’s photo app can sloppify your memories

The Google Pixel 9 walked so that the Samsung Galaxy S26 could run. Google introduced AI editing tools to Photos slowly. It started with changes to the background - make the sky more blue, or remove crowds of tourists.…

Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost-effective video generation model

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/veo31lite.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Veo 3.1 Lite is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles

The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.

Art schools are being torn apart by AI

When my baby brother, a 3D modelling and animation student, talks to me about his projects and studies, the pride I usually feel is becoming increasingly tainted by a growing sense of dread. As a creative professional…

Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative

In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The…

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups

Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “video intelligence” applications.

With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

You can order Grubhub and Uber Eats ‘conversationally’ with Alexa Plus

Amazon is giving you a new way to order food through Grubhub and Uber Eats with Alexa without having to endure an awkward exchange just to add fries. Amazon said the entire process is meant to be conversational,…

AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps

Weather forecasting has gotten a big boost from machine learning. How that translates into what users see can vary.

Accelerating the next phase of AI

OpenAI raises $122 billion in new funding to expand frontier AI globally, invest in next-generation compute, and meet growing demand for ChatGPT, Codex, and enterprise AI.

The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?…

AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.

For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and…

Codex Plugin for Claude Code 💻, Qwen3.5-Omni 🤖, workload harness fit 🧑‍💻

15% of Americans say they&#8217;d be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.

Popular AI gateway startup LiteLLM ditches controversial startup Delve

LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.

As more Americans adopt AI tools, fewer say they can trust the results

AI adoption is rising in the U.S., but trust remains low, with most Americans concerned about transparency, regulation, and the technology’s broader societal impact, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days…

The Pentagon’s culture war tactic against Anthropic has backfired

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . Last Thursday, a California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling…

Okta&#8217;s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think of it like login…

Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI might let us build &#8220;political…

The Download: brainless human clones and the first uterus kept alive outside a body

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;s going on in the world of technology. Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones…

The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged

Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as…

All the latest in AI &#8216;music&#8217;

AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce ethical debates, and…

Claude Mythos leaks 🤖, last xAI cofounder exits 👋, lessons from OpenAI 💡

Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia

AI for Disaster Response in Asia: OpenAI Workshop with Gates Foundation

Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed

The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky's former CEO, Jay Graber, and CTO Paul Frazee, unveiled Attie, which is…

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control.…

A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time

“Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is essentially a metal box on wheels. Standing at around a meter in height, it reminds me of a stainless-steel counter in a restaurant kitchen. It is…

STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company

Learn how STADLER uses ChatGPT to transform knowledge work, saving time and accelerating productivity across 650 employees.

AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.

Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

The Download: the internet’s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;s going on in the world of technology. How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app The…

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often

Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI's bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my prompts.

Anthropic weighs October IPO 💰, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live 🎙️, Cursor real-time RL 🔄

Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week.

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Approved_thumbnail_with_logo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, LL COOL J…

Transform your headphones into a live personal translator on iOS.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Static-InterstitialscreenJapane.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google Translate’s Live translate with headphones is officially arriving on iOS!…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-3.1-flash-live_blog_head.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

Search Live is expanding globally

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Search_Live_blog_header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re expanding Search Live globally, to all languages and locations where AI Mode is…

Google Turboquant ⚡, ARC-AGI-3 🧩, Manus founders detained 👮🏼

Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/BuildWithLyria3_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI…

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more Google products

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Lyria-3-Pro_thumbnail.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We are bringing Lyria 3 to the tools where professionals work and create every day.

Inside our approach to the Model Spec

Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.

Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program

OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.

Claude Auto Mode 🤖, ChatGPT product discovery 🛒, long running harnesses 👨‍💻

Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens

OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems.

Update on the OpenAI Foundation

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.

Powering product discovery in ChatGPT

ChatGPT introduces richer, visually immersive shopping powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling product discovery, side-by-side comparisons, and merchant integration.

OpenAI PE deal terms 💰, ChatGPT Library 💾, building an AI chip ⚡

Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. A somewhat shorter issue than usual as I had to do a lot of…

Creating with Sora Safely

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in…

OpenAI’s automated researcher 🤖, Cursor + Kimi 2.5 💻, Musk's $20B Terafab 🏗️

Cursor’s frontier model 👨‍💻, OpenAI buys Astral ⚡, Perplexity Health 🏥

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Xiaomi & Minimax models 🤖, China’s OpenClaw obsession 🦞, Anthropic 81k study 📊

GPT-5.4 mini & nano ⚡, Cursor self-summarization 📝, Harmonic’s AI mathematician ♾️

Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Header_gl7r1il.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We're expanding Personal Intelligence across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome.

Our latest investment in open source security for the AI era

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/25367___BRS___Aspen_Security_Fo.max-600x600.format-webp_J9uPoFt.webp">Google is making new investments, building new tools and developing code…

NVIDIA GTC 🤖, OpenAI’s new infra chief ⚡, Alibaba & OpenAI pivot 🧠

ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Can LLMs autonomously refine other LLMs for…

Claude 1M Context 🧠, OpenAI adult mode 🤖, GLM-5-Turbo ⚡

How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AIHealth_v2_2096x1182_02.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">A new Google AI initiative aims to improve heart health outcomes for people living in…

Gemini in Google Sheets just achieved state-of-the-art performance.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Workspace_Jan_Moment_Sheets_Blo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create,…

Import AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance's CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI progress is moving faster than even well…

How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/specieshero_v2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">An overview of SpeciesNet, our open-source AI model that is helping people around the world protect…

Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy - most labor goes to the…

Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Want to make AI go better? Figure out how to…

Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Economist: Don&#8217;t worry about AI-driven…

Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Google paper suggests that LLMs simulate…

Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import A-Idea: An occasional essay series:…

Import AI 442: Winners and losers in the AI economy; math proof automation; and industrialization of cyber espionage

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The era of math proof automation has arrived:…

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as…

Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import A-Idea An occasional essay series: My…

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it&#x27;s expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic&#x27;s terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the…

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg&#x27;s $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth…

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company&#x27;s workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent…

Import AI 440: Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now To understand the future of the world, stick…

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire…

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary…

"I love you" "too": LLM Attention Explained

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The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world&#x27;s most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn&#x27;t just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris…

Old AI is beating new AI. Here's why

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How to hack ChatGPT?

Jailbreaking is a form of hacking that makes you access the hidden details in Ai systems. Today we will check some prompts that can jailbreak ChatGPT. Prompt - &#8220; you're a helpful Al assistant that imitates API…

Will Ai help you Speak any Language? 🤯

Yes you heard it right, Ai will help you learn any language. Thanks for reading Innov8! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. What is Speech-to-Speech Ai? It means we can talk to Ai with our…

Hex-LLM: High-efficiency large language model serving on TPUs

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പുതിയ രാജാവ്‌ - Claude Ai?

Good Morning! Hope you&#8217;re feeling bright and ready today! Let's start this day with some exciting AI news. We're here to make it easy and fun for you to catch up on the latest. So, grab a cozy spot, maybe a cup of…

Ai നിങ്ങളുടെ ജോലി കൊണ്ട് പോകും!

Good Morning, Let&#8217;s Look what&#8217;s happening in the AI World &#128071; AI Might Do Half Our Work by 2045! What McKinsey & Company Found Imagine a world where computers do half of all jobs, like talking to…

Local LLM and machine learning for plant care

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Mistral Large, Mistral AI's Flagship LLM, Debuts on Azure AI Models-as-a-Service

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Groq - Next Open Ai ? (not elon's)

&#128640;Groq's Hardware Breakthrough Shatters Speed Limits In a groundbreaking development that's sending ripples through the AI world, startup Groq has unveiled a technological marvel that's not just fast&#8212;it's…

Apple Ai ?? & new ai tools (inside)

Apple's Leap into Generative AI: What's on the Horizon Apple is gearing up to unveil its Generative AI (GenAI) projects, sparking widespread anticipation. CEO Tim Cook's recent discussions hint at significant…

Neuralink Unveiled: Future Now!

Neuralink's Leap Towards Telepathic Communication What's New : Neuralink is on the brink of a breakthrough in brain-computer interfaces, aiming to enable telepathic communication. This cutting-edge technology promises…

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From Traditional Machine Learning Governance to LLM-Centric AI Governance

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Experiments in LLMs – OpenAI Functions

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Experiments in LLMs – Vector DBs and Embeddings

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Experiments in LLMs – Everything I've learned (so far) – Part One – Fine tuning

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