Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…OpenAI spent much of 2023 and 2024 investing instead in its multimodal AI models and agents—designed to understand text, images, video, and audio and control a cursor and keyboard much like…
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The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
…It completed six rounds of fundraising in just 13 months from investors including the Chinese government, Alibaba’s Ant Group, and HongShan Capital, Sequoia Capital’s Chinese spinoff. LinkerBot is now seeking…
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
…Wix’s Brodie argued that two examples that WIRED shared with Base44 did appear to be test sites or have AI-generated data. For the web apps WIRED reviewed, we couldn't…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Such a move suggests this new smartphone could run Android; however, the Reuters report indicates that Transformer might have an AI interface that would “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Generative…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
…It’s her generation’s everyday life. The danger is no longer just misinformation. Thanks to AI, it’s now possible to manufacture fake realities at scale. Deepfake videos, cloned voices, and…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…other generative AI technologies. Communities in nearly every state have organized against the projects, citing concerns about electricity and water usage, toxic waste, noxious emissions, noise, tax breaks, and whether AI is…
OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic
…This month, the California attorney general’s office denied WIRED’s official request for records of recent communications with OpenAI, citing laws shielding investigative and certain other files from public disclosure. OpenAI…
The iPhone That Never Was
…Then NTT (Japan’s largest telecom), then Toshiba, then France Telecom, and on and on, each one investing millions of dollars. General Magic’s partners controlled so much of the world’s…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…Is anything lost by the introduction of AI to the classroom? Will we end up with a generation of students who use chatbots as a crutch—to draft essays, solve problems, and…
Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems
…They include pledges to replenish more freshwater than the company consumes, via investments in local water projects; to scale up the use of reclaimed and recycled water; and to disclose annual water…