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The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-tech-worlds-greatest-living-novelist-robin-sloan-goes-meta/
Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue.
https://www.wired.com/story/danish-media-demands-a-deal-with-openai-or-else/
AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone
Apple is limiting its new artificial intelligence features to new phones, in hopes of a sunny September.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-apples-best-shot-at-getting-you-to-upgrade-your-phone/
Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave
Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-macos-ai-openai/
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2024: AI Features, New Siri, Genmoji
The company's annual developer event was stacked with demonstrations that showed off the new artificial intelligence capabilities coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/
Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy.
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-secretly-training-on-real-childrens-faces/
How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent.
https://www.wired.com/story/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-and-efficient/
The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched
From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for the digital world. Implementing them, however, isn’t always easy.
https://www.wired.com/story/european-commission-big-tech-regulation-outlook/
Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin
Plus: Wilson Audio revamps its iconic speakers, Elon continues to Elon, and Google’s AI overviews are already causing chaos.
https://www.wired.com/story/things-keep-getting-worse-for-the-humane-ai-pin/
Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
It’s OK to be doubtful of tech leaders’ grandiose visions of our AI future—but that doesn’t mean the technology won’t have a huge impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/dont-let-mistrust-of-tech-companies-blind-you-power-of-ai/
An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job
As if trying to land a new gig isn’t demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills.
US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets
Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.
https://www.wired.com/story/national-security-experts-warn-ai-giants-secrets/
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-offers-a-peek-inside-the-guts-of-chatgpt/
Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article.
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-teamwork-makes-the-ai-dream-work/
Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews
This week, we discuss the bumpy first few weeks of Google’s AI-powered summaries, and why the new feature is making us sweat.
Apple WWDC 2024: What to Expect for Software and Hardware
The annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts Monday, June 10. Here are the new features, AI-powered and otherwise, potentially coming to your devices.
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-lead-army-of-digital-sleuths-age-of-ai/
Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid
Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.
https://www.wired.com/story/marc-andreessen-online-safety-enemy-walled-gardens/
Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work
Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-results-copied-my-original-work/