Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a...
HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and...
Jeffrey Epstein Had a ‘Personal Hacker,’ Informant Claims
As the standoff between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially...
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I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click
When I was finally able to experiment with Auto Browse (for real this time) I took Google’s suggestions of digital...
‘Uncanny Valley’: Minneapolis Misinformation, TikTok’s New Owners, and Moltbot Hype
In today’s episode, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer are joined by Tim Marchman, WIRED’s director of science, politics, and...
AI-Generated Anti-ICE Videos Are Getting the Fanfic Treatment
At first glance, the scuffle in the video seems shocking. A New York City school principal, waving a bat, stops...
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI...
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
Even now that the data is secured, Margolis and Thacker argue that it raises questions about how many people inside...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according...
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips...
