Tag Archives: Wired

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let’s move on.

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The Rare Earth Metal Driving Tensions Between the US and China

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the market—and that’s not changing any time soon.

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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

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Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup

Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

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WIRED Roundup: Gemini 3 Release, Nvidia Earnings, Epstein Files Fallout

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we cover the news of the week and take a closer look at the Gemini 3, Google’s latest AI model and chatbot.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on the Offensive

Two years after he was found guilty of fraud, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is pursuing a legal appeal—and firing up his X account.

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Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting

Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

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A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI

The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

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