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Webb Wright is a senior reporter at Gizmodo covering the science and business of artificial intelligence. He lives in New York City.
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Claude Sonnet 5 delivers impressive agentic capabilities at a relatively low cost. It’s also really bad at cybersecurity—probably for the reason you’d expect.
The company’s Brain2Qwerty v2 system can translate brainscans into coherent sentences, no invasive surgery required.
Some call it a dangerous path to runaway AI, others call it vibe research.
Welcome to the ‘Society of the Psyop.’
"We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default," OpenAI said in a Friday announcement.
The state has launched a “first-in-the-nation” data-tracking tool to keep an eye on how AI is reshaping its labor market.
Publishers and artists aren’t the only ones accusing AI startups of foul play these days.
The company behind ChatGPT is heating up its efforts to achieve technological independence.
That's not the whole story, though.
The Trump family and federal prosecutors have had their eyes on the industry, too.
The company has said its new age-verification measure “applies only to a small subset of users.”
The company's new deal with AI startup Reflection also hints at a bright future for open source AI.
That’s a long way from 100% sustainable, though.
The senator is making the case that AI is a public resource that was built using the collective genius of humanity.
The company is also opening a spa in downtown San Francisco, “with pools of golden light which softly scan your body.”
Of course, whether the administration cares about the legal basis is an open question.
It’s an early experiment in adding a measure of accountability to an increasingly lawless internet.
Affordability is becoming an existential problem for frontier models.
The quarrel between the federal government and the startup behind Fable and Mythos thickened over the weekend.
Big tech says its circular dealmaking is a virtuous dealmaking. To others it looks more like a noose.