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How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

At WIRED’s AI Power Summit Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.

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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

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USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.

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OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.

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How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate

A series of corporate leaks show that Chinese technology companies function far more like their Western peers than one might imagine.

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Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World

Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

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Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

Tune into Uncanny Valley’s first live show in San Francisco on September 9, featuring special guest Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.

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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

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