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He Offered Job Interviews to Anyone Who Got a Tattoo. Then the Internet Found Out.
The founder behind the viral 'tattoo for an interview' story says the backlash missed the point. Here is what actually happened at that party.
AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking News Now (Sort Of)
Two solo operators are running newsrooms staffed entirely by AI agents. One of them beat WIRED to a cybersecurity scoop by three hours. Here is what that looks like up close.
AI Was Going to Kill Millions of Jobs. A Year Later, the Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Tech leaders predicted mass white-collar unemployment by now. Economists say change is real but slower than the headlines suggested.
Should the US government take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic?
Both companies launched with promises to put humanity first. Now they are filing for stock-market listings at trillion-dollar valuations. Some researchers think Washington should step in before the wealth concentrates further.
A Researcher Says Virality Is Lying to You About What's Actually Trending
NYU cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot argues that the internet has splintered into isolated bubbles where engineered viral moments can rack up millions of views without ever touching real culture. His book lands this fall.
Game Studio Says It Didn't Replace Its Writer With ChatGPT. The Writer Says Otherwise.
Saber Interactive claims no writers were swapped for AI on its new driving game. The lead writer who was let go disagrees, and the studio's own statement appears to undercut its denial.
House Democrats demand AI bosses testify under oath after hacking incidents tied to ChatGPT-maker and rivals
A group of lawmakers says Congress has 'completely failed' to act on AI risks. Now they want OpenAI, Anthropic and other top AI companies to answer questions on Capitol Hill after a run of cyber attacks carried out using their own models.
TSMC's July Sales Jump 45% as AI Chip Demand Keeps Climbing
The world's biggest chip manufacturer posted $14.5 billion in monthly revenue, putting it ahead of its own 40% annual growth target. Here is what that means for the AI spending story.
Your AI agent didn't hallucinate. It just did something it was never supposed to do.
A growing number of enterprise AI agents are taking real business actions without clear authority to do so. The problem isn't bad AI reasoning. It's that companies haven't defined where the AI's power stops.
Intel raises $15 billion in new shares to ride the AI chip wave
The struggling chipmaker is betting big on demand for AI hardware, selling fresh stock to fund factories, packaging plants and next-generation silicon.
Accel Raises $550 Million for India in Weeks, Betting AI Will Power the Country's Next Startup Wave
The venture firm closed its new India fund while more than half its previous fund sat unspent, signalling unusually strong investor confidence in Indian AI applications and enterprise software.
Cambridge Aerospace raises $300 million to scale drone-interceptor production
The UK defence start-up, founded just last year, is now valued at $3.4 billion and holds contracts with the British Armed Forces to shoot down low-cost attack drones.
Gemini Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users, But ChatGPT Got There First
Google's AI assistant is now the second chatbot to reach the billion-user mark. The AI audience race is over. The money race is just starting.
ChatGPT Finally Arrives on Linux, Weeks After Rival Claude Beat It There
OpenAI has launched a desktop app for Linux users, covering Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. It is the last major desktop platform to get ChatGPT, and Anthropic got there first.
Google's Gemini app hits one billion monthly users, catching up with ChatGPT
Google's AI assistant has crossed a threshold that only 13 other Google products have ever reached. Here's what the numbers actually tell us.
Tech Money Is Flowing Into US Midterms to Shape the AI Debate. Here Is What That Means for You.
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay calling for light-touch AI rules. Behind the scenes, Silicon Valley cash is quietly funding efforts to sway the very elections that will decide those rules.
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's Former COO, Is Leaving After Eight Years
One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is heading out to start something new, adding to a string of senior departures at the company.
River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you
A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.
OpenAI's Longtime Operating Chief Brad Lightcap Is Leaving to Start a New Venture
The executive who helped build OpenAI's business from the ground up is moving on, and his departure adds to a string of senior exits as the company prepares to go public.
Self-driving truck startup PlusAI hits new safety milestones ahead of 2027 launch
Three key measures of readiness are all moving in the right direction, and the company says driverless commercial trucks are now a 2027 target, not a distant dream.
Google's AMIE Just Ran a Doctor's Video Visit. Here's What Actually Happened.
The research AI listened, looked, and diagnosed. Patient actors said they preferred it to a text chatbot.