Global AI Picks

This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

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Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

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Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"

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Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

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Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.

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I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

The Benchmark Behind the Next Wave of Ultra-Low-Power AI

Machine learning has moved beyond data centers into battery-powered devices with milliwatt power budgets. MLPerf Tiny provides a fair, architecture-neutral benchmark to compare performance and efficiency across radically different ultra-low-power systems.

Agentic Inference for MLPerf Inference

MLPerf Inference introduces a new Agentic Inference benchmark targeting multi-turn agentic workloads such as coding assistants and workflow agents. It uses real-world traces to evaluate inference serving stacks under long context, KV-cache reuse, and variable output lengths.

Call for Submission: Edge Agentic Inference Benchmark for MLPerf Inference v6.1

MLCommons introduces the new Edge Agentic Inference benchmark in MLPerf Inference v6.1, using Qwen3.6-27B with Q4_K_M quantization to measure accuracy and latency for on-device agentic LLM workloads. Submissions are due July 31, 2026.

MedPerf Meets Google Cloud Confidential Computing: Secure AI Benchmarking for Brain Tumor Research

At Google Cloud Next 2026, MLCommons Medical AI Working Group and Google Cloud announced that MedPerf, MLCommons' federated benchmarking orchestrator, now supports Google Cloud's Confidential Computing capabilities, demonstrated through a clinically relevant brain tumor segmentation scenario to protect both patient data and AI model IP.