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A $9 physical key that locks your most distracting apps
Screen-time apps rely on willpower. This tiny NFC device makes you physically walk to unlock Instagram or TikTok, and it costs less than a large pizza.
Safe Superintelligence and Nvidia Strike a Multi-Billion Dollar Partnership to Scale AI Safety Research
Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI lab is coming out of two years of quiet work with a major compute deal, access to Nvidia's newest chips, and a valuation of $32 billion.
Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob
The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.
Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who refuse to share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.
Five things enterprise leaders need to know before deploying AI agents
Intel ran thousands of experiments on agentic AI workloads and found that most organisations are measuring the wrong things. Here is what actually matters when you move beyond chatbots.
Artist sues AI meme generator for turning his viral comic into an ad machine
Elmer Saflor drew the 'Running Away Balloon' comic in 2017. Now he says a company is selling paid subscriptions to a tool that copies it without permission.
AI Can Design Bioweapons. Can It Also Stop Them?
The same artificial intelligence that accelerates disease detection can help bad actors engineer deadly pathogens. Public health experts say the race between offense and defense has already begun.
Meet the Seven People Deciding America's AI Policy Right Now
A senior White House official told Wired it is 'an argument with ten sides'. Here is who is pulling the strings on US AI rules, what each one wants, and what it means for the rest of us.
AI Is a Human Product, Not a Magic Force. A New Book Wants You to Know the Difference.
Ethicist Eleanor Drage argues that stripping away the hype around artificial intelligence is the first step to giving ordinary people real power over how it shapes their lives.
Fake AI doctors are racking up millions of TikTok views with bogus health advice
Computer-generated medics look convincing enough to fool viewers. Doctors are alarmed.
Brain waves and borrowed muscles: the unusual data farms training tomorrow's robots
A startup is strapping brain-wave headsets onto warehouse workers to teach robots how to think on their feet. It turns out the real bottleneck in physical AI is not smarter software, it is raw data.
US and China agree: open-source AI needs strong security, not a free-for-all
Twenty-one Pacific-rim economies signed a joint statement backing open AI models built with government-grade security checks. It is the first time ministers from the US and China have agreed on open-source AI at all.
South Korea and NVIDIA Open a Joint AI Lab and Deepen Tech Ties at San Francisco Summit
A new research lab at one of Asia's top universities, a memory chip deal, and plans for AI infrastructure signal South Korea's push to become a serious player in global AI.
Amazon now requires sellers to label AI-generated people in product images
A new New York State law pushed Amazon to act. Here is what it means for shoppers scrolling through listings and for the sellers who make their living on the platform.
Why Chinese AI keeps sending Silicon Valley into a spin
Moonshot AI's Kimi model touched off another weekend of panic in the tech industry. The real story is less about the model and more about who benefits from the fear.
Cory Doctorow Says the AI Bubble Will Burst, and Bosses Will Regret Firing Their Staff
The sci-fi author and tech critic is touring Australia with a blunt message: replacing workers with AI tools is a short-term fix with a very long hangover.
Why Does Endless Digital Pleasure Feel So Empty?
An essay in The Guardian asks why infinite entertainment, on-demand food, and AI companions leave so many people feeling hollow. The question matters for anyone building or using AI products.
Shining Light onto a Chip Could Give Robots a Faster AI Brain Update
Cornell Tech researchers have built a receiver that rewrites a chip's memory using flashes of light instead of electrical wires, and it could one day let warehouse robots refresh their AI models on the fly.
150 Years Old and Still Building Motors for Space Robots
Magmotor Technologies has been making custom electric motors since 1876. Now it plans to triple its workforce and revenue, with robotics leading the charge.
Small Businesses Are Using AI to Help Workers, Not Replace Them
A window company owner spent $10,000 on an AI tool that listens to sales conversations and writes up quotes automatically. His staff serve more customers. Nobody lost a job.