Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025
Agents are the hottest thing in tech right now. Top firms from Google DeepMind to OpenAI to Anthropic are racing to augment large language models with the ability to carry...
GameStop boss Ryan Cohen gearing up for PR blitz
Chewy founder Ryan Cohen has achieved a cult-like following in the meme-stock community for his efforts to save the video-game merchandiser GameStop, a frequent target of short-sellers that had soared...
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get-out-of-jail-free card, notwithstanding that internal Meta records show every relevant decision-maker at Meta, up to and including its...
Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do
Whether you’re describing the sound of your faulty car engine or meowing like your neighbor’s cat, imitating sounds with your voice can be a helpful way to relay a concept...
How optimistic are you about AI’s future?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The start of a new year,...
Online holiday sales rise nearly 9% on mobile shopping boom
US online spending rose nearly 9% during the 2024 holiday season, with shoppers increasingly buying products such as TVs and LEGO sets on their smartphones, data from Adobe Analytics showed on Tuesday. Holiday spending...
Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving cars. While language models learn how...
A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately
By adapting artificial intelligence models known as large language models, researchers have made great progress in their ability to predict a protein’s structure from its sequence. However, this approach hasn’t...
Robotaxis: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
WHO Baidu, Pony AI, Waymo, Wayve, Zoox WHEN Now If you live in certain cities in America or China, you’ve probably spotted driverless cars dropping off passengers. Perhaps you’ve even...
PayPal accused of racial bias against Asian Americans in funding program
PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to black and Hispanic...
WIRED’s 2024 Year-in-Review Quiz: From AI Slop to Human Brain Implants
2024 was another year defined by generative AI, with software features put into the hands of millions of people worldwide and unavoidably built into popular services, like Google Search. While...
MIT welcomes Frida Polli as its next visiting innovation scholar
Frida Polli, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, investor, and inventor known for her leading-edge contributions at the crossroads of behavioral science and artificial intelligence, is MIT’s new visiting innovation scholar for the...
The humans behind the robots
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Here’s a question. Imagine that, for...
Elon Musk urges supporters not to donate to Wikipedia over DEI
Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion...
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This will be sold as...
