Tag Archives: Wired

Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

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Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

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OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.

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Jack Dorsey’s Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity

Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.

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The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.

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Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

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How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

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