Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.
Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.
Maybe I’m just punch-drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don’t want to be here any more than I do. Their opening statement was honestly one of the most Microsoft things I’ve ever seen. More than anything […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version is different because it […]
Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open articles, and more. In its […]
Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.
For founders and investors, Anthropic’s new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn’t the Fortune 500; it’s the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.
Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
“I believe I am an honest and trustworthy businessperson,” Altman testified in federal court.
The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.
Gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company’s use of “mobile” gas turbines as power plants.
Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.
The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action. Physical AI Expo North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, uniting global AI innovators, robotics leaders, […]
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Google DeepMind researchers have outlined four interaction principles and released experimental demos of an AI-enabled mouse pointer powered by Gemini — one that captures the visual and semantic context around the cursor so users can point, speak in natural shorthand, and get things done without switching to a separate AI window.
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Thinking Machines Lab has introduced a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active parameters, built around a multi-stream, time-aligned micro-turn architecture that processes 200ms chunks of audio, video, and text simultaneously — eliminating the need for external voice-activity detection harnesses. Unlike standard turn-based models that freeze perception during generation, the system runs two components in parallel: a real-time interaction model that maintains continuous full-duplex exchange with the user, and an asynchronous background model that handles sustained reasoning and tool use while sharing the full conversation context throughout.
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Google and its AI lab DeepMind are bearing down OpenAI and Anthropic
Investors hunt for winners in market that for years has lagged behind Wall Street’s rally
Japanese group books net income of $11.6bn in fourth quarter, vastly ahead of analyst expectations
What’s really behind the Musk-Altman legal battle?
Venture funding to agriculture-related startups in 2026 is on track to be on par or slightly lower than in recent years, while deal count looks to be down more significantly, with even AI-driven companies not able to make up for tepid investor enthusiasm for the sector in the post-pandemic years.
Saile, which just raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered credentialing and staffing platform designed to help physicians quickly pick up side jobs.
Executives and investors rank improving people analytics as a top priority for ROI in 2026. However, a new Mercer study finds only 27% of executives believe their HR team effectively advises them on human capital risks.
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The shift in HR insight is how quickly thinking is forming, how unevenly it is being tested and whether HR is setting that standard.
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According to a survey, 84% of respondents expect AI-related policy or regulatory changes in the next year.
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The research shows that the barrier to health often is relatively small—typically less than $1,500.
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Economists largely considered the jobs report solid, though hiring was again concentrated in healthcare and unemployment ticked up.
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Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.
Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people – until a pulp digester exploded in 2020, forcing the mill to close permanently. In 2023, the 1.4 million-square-foot facility was purchased through a joint venture by JGT2 Redevelopment and a number […]
Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you’ll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company’s new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for “toilet paper” will still return the expected […]
Adaption’s new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.