A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to create incentives for powerful AI models that make following the rules the most rational choice. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human desires—to make sure, in other words, that rogue agents don’t break the law,…
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.
The Abu Dhabi government and OpenAI signed four agreements to launch the world’s first AI-native machine-readable government initiative, with the first pilot now live at the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority. The initiative converts policies and regulations into formats AI can process directly, using OpenAI’s GPT models on UAE-based infrastructure while the government retains data ownership.
VicOne says its AI-assisted tools uncovered 28 zero-day vulnerabilities across the physical AI software supply chain in under two days, with roughly 75% located in development, training, and simulation tooling rather than on the robots themselves. The findings were published as sponsored content and have not yet been matched to CVE IDs.
Anthropic has extended invisible SynthID-Text watermarks to four older Claude models worldwide to meet the EU AI Act's machine-readable labeling deadline. Detection remains limited to a private beta for regulators, law enforcement, media, researchers, and selected organizations, raising concerns about asymmetric access.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained just one directive, ordering government agencies to rebrand what they had been calling artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.” That…
A Chinese-speaking hacker used the open-source Cairn framework with Claude Code and DeepSeek to compromise more than 100 corporate websites in a single 23-hour intrusion, at a total cost of about $5,000 and about $50 per attack. Security Boulevard first disclosed the case on November 2, 2026.
Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.
Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Oracle filed to raise $20 billion through common stock and senior notes for AI data centers, marking its second financing of the same size in 2026. The move, despite being pre-announced, renewed investor concerns about dilution, debt pressure, and the funding gap behind its aggressive AI buildout.
Anthropic’s amended S-1 discloses about $895.4 billion in cumulative compute commitments, 6.8 times its cash and short-term investments. The filing also reveals a sharp quarterly profit swing, a concentrated supplier matrix, and revenue and compliance risks that will test whether the bet pays off.
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
On 2026-11-03, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6 Sol tied for first at 87.27. The Smoke test uses 10 questions per day and is suitable for observing short-term signals, not for drawing Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
