In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorneyβs Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AIβand it's driving the data center buildout.
Plus: The US disrupts the internetβs biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested peopleβs Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased βNameTagβ face recognition feature.
This week on βUncanny Valley,β we dig into a former Anthropic researcherβs AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Appleβs event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the βmini Manhattan projectβ inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
The City Attorneyβs Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the cityβs jurisdiction.
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip designβand a proprietary materialβcan help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.