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구글 검색 누락 다시 등록하려면?

구글 검색 누락 다시 등 구글 검색 누락 다시 등록하려면? 웹사이트나 블로그를 운영하다 보면 어느 날 갑자기 검색 결과에서 특정

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레플리카사이트 리뷰는 신뢰할 수 있나요?

레플리카사이트 리뷰는 신뢰할 수 온라인 쇼핑을 이용하는 소비자들 사이에서 레플리카사이트 리뷰는 신뢰할 수 있나요?라는 질문이 자주 제기되고 있습니다. 레플리카사이트는 정품보다

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인계동호빠는 어떤 복장이 어울리나요?

인계동호빠는 어떤 복장이 인계동호빠는 어떤 복장이 어울리나요?라는 질문은 처음 인계동호빠를 방문하려는 사람들이 가장 많이 궁금해하는 부분 중 하나입니다. 호빠는 단순한

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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push

Microsoft and Nvidia have unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy, in a move

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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

My evidence that we’re onto something is we’ve seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten

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

In an increasingly divided world, one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that artificial intelligence is a hugely

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

More than 200 contractors who worked on evaluating and improving Google’s AI products have been laid off without warning in

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

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me

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How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate

A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship

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

Another TikTok video Degeling shared with WIRED showed a slow-motion, close-up angle of the bullet hitting Kirk’s neck. The tone

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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

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The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

The United Arab Emirates has released an open source model that performs advanced reasoning as well as the best offerings

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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some

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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing

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Where's the Fun in AI Gambling?

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down the role of AI in the online gambling scene.

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors

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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this

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Should AI Get Legal Rights?

In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar

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The Unexpected Winners of Trump’s Trade War

But Shein and Temu didn’t stop marketing altogether. Instead, both companies chose to shift their ad budgets abroad to regions

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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the

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The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight

Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide

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WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week’s biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta’s new superintelligence

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Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents

Some up-and-comers are pushing to make agents that can actually place wagers instead of just supplying tips, but the field

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Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21,

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Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over App Store Rankings

Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of behaving like monopolies and

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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

And that requires swallowing our pride here, right? Like we actually need to learn from China, even though US politicians

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,”

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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But

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Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a

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Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

We’re going to talk a little bit about that later. Now I hate to do this, but you did work

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WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk about the Trump administration’s deals with

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A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House

When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate

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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to

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Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?

The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already

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How to Become a Vibe Coder

Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: Yeah. But yeah, I’d be curious to see what you come up with. Michael Calore:

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Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and

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The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official

The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company,

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Join Us for WIRED’s “Uncanny Valley” Live

On September 9, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley‘s first live show of the podcast. Join us in

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Kanye West Said Memecoins ‘Prey On Fans.’ Then He Apparently Launched One

Kanye West, the hip-hop artist who goes by Ye, appears to have launched his own cryptocurrency, YZY, sparking a riot

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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if

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Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s

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OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?

OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most

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Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not

John Borthwick, CEO of the venture capital firm Betaworks, tells WIRED that he is skeptical about the feasibility and potential

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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor

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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like

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Senators Press Howard Lutnick’s Former Investment Firm Over Tariff Conflict of Interest Concerns

Last month, WIRED reported that the investment banking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons

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A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation

Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the Office of the Chief

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Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day

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Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag

Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of

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Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley

This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually

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Inside the Biden Administration’s Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

Then there were the specifics. How would the policy distinguish between equipment that really posed a risk, and products companies

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Why Trump Flip-Flopped on Nvidia Selling H20 Chips to China

The tech industry is reeling from President Trump’s surprising new deal with Nvidia. Earlier this week, Trump said he would

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Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did

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GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence

Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in

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Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

“AI is expensive. Let’s be honest about that,” Anand says. Growth vs. Safety In October 2024, the mother of a

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Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury

The Trump family began to tease the launch of World Liberty Financial last August, ahead of the 2024 US presidential

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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood

While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

In response to a detailed request for comment from WIRED, Palantir spokesperson Lisa Gordon said in a statement that the

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Trump Is Undermining Trust in Official Economic Statistics. China Shows Where That Path Can Lead

Welcome back! Louise here. On Friday, President Trump fired one of the nation’s top economists after her agency published a

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Inside Dylan Field’s Big IPO—and His Even Bigger Plans for Figma

When Dylan Field pops up on my Zoom screen, his face is a mixture of giddiness and fatigue. He’s back

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Join Our Next Livestream: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time

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The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman’s

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I

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Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

Carter termed this alleged discrimination campaign Operation Chokepoint 2.0, in reference to an Obama-era antifraud program under which US officials

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OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent),

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a

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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data

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Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs

For companies importing goods from Southeast Asia, like Luxor, the timing of Trump’s announcement was particularly unhelpful, coinciding with Eid,

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OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run

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I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website

A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack

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Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit

The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep

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A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600

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The Inside Story of Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin

“Going public is a game-changer,” Eric Trump said. “It unlocks capital and institutional access that will fuel our mission to

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Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World

Three days after the Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI action plan, the Chinese government put out its own AI

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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit

In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and

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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

Louise Matsakis: I got to say, I think calling this a migration is maybe underselling it. This is an evacuation,

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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access to Claude

Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was

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Uber’s Drive to Become the Kleenex of Robotaxis

“To them, it doesn’t really matter who ultimately succeeds,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the self-driving-vehicle industry and is

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Donald Trump’s New Crypto Bible Is Everything the Industry Ever Wanted

The White House has laid out its plan to usher in a “new American Golden Age,” with cryptocurrency at its

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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs

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Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence

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ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or

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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT

But perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence suggesting that ChatGPT regurgitated the language of Warhammer 40,000 is that it

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Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

Would you like to work nearly double the standard 40-hour week? It’s a question that many startups in the US

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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that

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It Looks Like the Tesla Model Y Refresh Has Bombed

Tesla did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment on this article. For Nagley, it’s too early to talk about

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The Great Crypto Re-Banking Has Begun

For crypto firms, the vibe shift is a blessing. Although they have comparatively few problems accessing overseas bank accounts—often in

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing.

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Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis

Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service

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Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation

On Wednesday, the Trump administration unveiled its new artificial intelligence action plan geared at keeping US efforts competitive with China.

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Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves

But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools

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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China

I’ve been told by multiple people that the set of a short drama doesn’t necessarily look that different from an

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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does

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A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You

At WIRED, we’re obsessed with how the world is transforming—and lately, there’s been a lot to obsess over. From the

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OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round

OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The fundraising

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X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say

A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or

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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them

Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground

As a child, Julian Ako would visit his maternal great-grandfather’s home near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and

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I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and

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Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Wei worked

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data

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This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms:

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Congress Passes GENIUS Act in Major Win for US Crypto Industry

“Competition will be fierce,” says Christian Catalini, founder at MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and cocreator of Diem, the now-defunct stablecoin project

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Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars

WIRED contacted Huawei to ask about its potential role in the subsidies. Huawei did not comment in time for publication.

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Volodymyr Zelensky’s Clothing Has Sparked a Polymarket Rebellion

Polymarket did not respond to a request for comment. Launched in 2020, Polymarket rose to prominence last year as a

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GM’s Final EV Battery Strategy Copies China’s Playbook: Super Cheap Cells

General Motors has just announced its latest and likely final piece in what now appears to be a three-pronged cell-chemistry

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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla,

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Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO

Linda Yaccarino, who has served as CEO of X since Elon Musk appointed her to the role in June 2023,

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What Makes a Car Lovable? It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Cup Holders

Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results

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Tornado Cash Made Crypto Anonymous. Now One of Its Creators Faces Trial

A large portion of the trial, legal experts say, will focus on whether Storm intended for Tornado Cash to be

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5 Big EV Takeaways From Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

If you’re an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but.

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Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles

What’s going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were

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Microsoft and OpenAI’s AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract

I first learned about The Clause from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During an interview with him in May 2023, I

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You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst

Welcome to Uncanny Valley’s very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.

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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and

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A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control

A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible

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‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts

Edesia had to lay off 10 percent of its staff in March as USAID was dismantled; Salem says that it

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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

Grok’s first reply has since been “deleted by the Post author,” but in subsequent posts the chatbot suggested that people

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to announce Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members

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Business Travel Is Evolving Faster Than Ever. We’ll Help You Navigate It

It might feel like a distant memory, but in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic radically transformed how people lived, and specifically

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Business Class Ain’t What It Used to Be. Don’t Tell First Class

They’ll be competing with Delta Air Lines, the largest US carrier by revenue, which provides some of the industry’s plushest

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Airplane Wi-Fi Is Now … Good?

Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025

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For Today’s Business Traveler, It’s All About Work-Life Integration

This story is part of The New Era of Work Travel, a collaboration between the editors of WIRED and Condé

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Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets

That’s changing. With the majority of companies implementing hybrid or full-time office mandates, business travel has resumed and, with that,

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Airport Lounges Are Sexy Again—if You Can Get In

Let’s be honest: A crowded airport lounge without a seat in sight is usually less appealing than an empty gate

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi

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This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters

“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an [autonomous vehicle] deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law

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Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies

US attorney general Pam Bondi has told at least 10 tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, that they

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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns

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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI

A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the

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Come for the Amenity Kits, Stay for the Flight

Last March, Air France hosted a private event at the upscale Ritz Paris hotel in Place Vendôme, in the luxurious

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Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent

As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to

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Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y

Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a

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Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

As Congress races to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” it’s also sprinting to placate the many haters of

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Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

Microsoft has taken “a genuine step towards medical superintelligence,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence arm. The

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OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’

Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head

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No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

Neither the Department of Justice nor the White House responded to requests for comment on this issue; the Library of

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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi,

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Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

Before June 8, the skilled and respected ABC News television journalist Terry Moran was neither a household name nor political

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OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations

A small clause inside OpenAI’s contract with Microsoft, once considered a distant hypothetical, has now become a flashpoint in one

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AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at

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Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight

Michael Calore: So publishing is definitely at the top of the list of industries that have been worried about AI

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Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding

The lavish wedding between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez is scheduled for June 26-28 in Venice,

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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

Advocates for the idea that AI training is transformative still see Chhabria’s ruling as a win. “Judge Chhabria ruled today,

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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may

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This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing

According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in

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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’

Elon Musk’s lawyers claimed that he “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court filing related to his lawsuit

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China’s Electric Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hotspots

Xiaomi released its first EV model, the SU7, in early 2024. By the end of the year, foreign diplomats, investors,

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What Big Tech’s Band of Execs Will Do in the Army

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United

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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’? | WIRED

Michael Calore: Yeah. Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people

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‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video

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A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight

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Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to

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US Customs and Border Protection experienced a sharp rise in reports about potential tariff evasion after President Donald Trump abruptly

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In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan

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Last month, Suzanne Smith-Darley felt fantastic. She had just bought a used Chanel handbag from a Japanese seller on eBay

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On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar

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A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World

A new machine learning approach that draws inspiration from the way the human brain seems to model and learn about

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Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the San Francisco–based AI image generation startup is a

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In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to

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The fact that AI can produce results that range from remarkably impressive to shockingly problematic may explain why developers seem

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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale

US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing

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Will Knight: Maybe we also need a renewed open source movement so we’re not just using agents that belong and

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“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform

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Waymo declined to answer questions from WIRED about how many cameras are inside its vehicles, exactly how long footage is

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In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers,

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A Google Shareholder Is Suing the Company Over the TikTok Ban

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Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel

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Wait though … Perplexity—like other AI search engines—has been criticized for hallucinating and getting things wrong. We welcome this criticism,

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Palantir Is Going on Defense

Palantir, facing mounting public scrutiny for its work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive stance toward journalists and

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Of all the egomaniacal lions who ruled Hollywood during the 20th century gatekeeper era, very few made a brilliant pivot

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My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained

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Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts

The data show the US is also on the hook for about $14 billion for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service at

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Some of Trump’s high-profile backers from Silicon Valley stayed mostly quiet during the Trump-Musk flare-up on Thursday or tried to

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It took only a few hours to wipe $152 billion of value from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100

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Now that Trump is in office, launching his own crypto ventures and asking for legislation establishing (light) digital asset regulations

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As Donald Trump and his family stretch into nearly every corner of the cryptocurrency sector, a dispute has broken out

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Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy

In the spring of 2018, thousands of Google employees pressured the company into dropping a major artificial intelligence contract with

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Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just

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On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was

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Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Student Visas Could Derail Critical AI Research

At some US colleges, international students make up the majority of doctoral students in departments like computer science. At the

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Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results In Far Fewer Content Takedowns

Meta announced in January it would end some content moderation efforts, loosen its rules, and put more emphasis on supporting

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“My predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past,” Musk admitted to investors in 2023. “I’m the

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The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake

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It has long been said that visiting China from the West is akin to landing in a parallel universe. Pick