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Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer discuss WIRED’s big scoop on ICE’s startling plans to expand to nearly every state in the US. Then they unpack Alex Karp’s nearly-hour-long non-response to Palantir employees with ethical concerns about collaborating with ICE.
State-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia using models like Google’s Gemini to further their campaigns.
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI.
doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 per vial.So, when I saw RentAHuman, a new site where AI agents hire humans to perform physical work in the real wo
EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa. Some regions across the continent still have limited grid and charging infrastructure, and those that do have widespread electricity access
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that.
We are now a few years into the AI revolution, and talk has shifted from who has the best chatbot to whose AI agent can do the most things on your behalf. Unfortunately, AI agents are still rough around the edges, so tasking them with anything important is not a great idea.
low-regulation transactions have long promised the ability to pay anyone in the world for anything. More than ever before, that anything includes human beings: victims of human trafficking forced into scam compounds and the sex trade on an industrial scale, bought and sold in crypto deals carried ou
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. AI is already making online crimes easier.
and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet.The deal extends access to Clearview tools to Border Patrol’s headquarters intelligence division (INTEL) and the Natio
Threads is introducing an AI-powered feature that lets users personalize their feed, the Meta-owned social network announced on Wednesday.
In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space for years — mainly in the context of Iain Banks’ science-fiction series about a far-future universe where sentient spaceships roam and control the galaxy. Now Musk sees an opportunity to reali
OpenClaw, a powerful new agentic assistant, has a thing for guacamole.This is one of several things I discovered while using the viral artificial intelligence bot as my personal assistant this past week.Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot, OpenClaw recently became a Silicon Valley darling,
AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly.
On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began testing advertisements inside ChatGPT.
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not performance.
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Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization.
Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier.
Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a year and a half since then, the release date for this new era of Siri has been continuously pushed back.
