John Ternus talks plans to improve Siri AI
During Apple’s quarterly earnings call, CEO John Ternus was asked repeatedly about Siri AI’s future. Here’s what he said about Apple’s plans for improving and expanding Siri AI.
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Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI
Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote
From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer
The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check A new approach known as “reverse game theory”…
Google’s Ocarina of Time easter egg is a blast from the past
If you’re sick of AI search and all the business of modern Google search, this week’s Google easter egg will take you back 28 years to a simpler time when Ocarina of Time was the pinnacle of gaming, and Google was still a new name.
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are…
Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights
'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores
Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner
Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part
Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained just one directive…
Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory
Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut
Apple to require 18+ age ratings for dating apps and AI romantic companions
Apple today announced new age rating requirements coming to the App Store, covering apps with location-sharing features, as well as dating and relationship features. Here are the details.
Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B
Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue
Accent bias: AI models penalize certain speakers in interviews and tests, UW study finds
Models from Google and OpenAI scored American and British speakers higher than Chinese and Nigerian speakers, even when everyone read the same script.
AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes
Turns out legislation may have bugs, too
Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
Startup uses motion sensors and AI to tell families when an aging parent’s routine changes
After his mother-in-law was hurt in a fall and told no one, ex-Microsoft exec Michael Nassirian built a camera-free way for families to know when something’s off.
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking…
Thieves pilfer environment variables from Trigger AI workflow tool
So, who's ready to clear the dust out of that server closet and move things back on-prem?
Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges
Don't let the LLMjackers hit you
SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of... AI
'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat…
Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West
A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.
Pope Leo XIV on AI
Pope Leo XIV said in an Oct. 30 speech at the Vatican that the future of AI isn't predetermined, that machines are tools rather than persons and that states should move to ban lethal autonomous weapons. Oren Etzioni agrees with four of his…
Guarding the Gates of Knowledge
A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and…
Microsoft’s big buyout, Amazon’s trillion-dollar future, and an AI wearable reviews our show
Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicts two trillion-dollar businesses, and we let Amazon's Bee AI wearable listen to the show and critique our conversation.
Madrona Prize goes to UW research on agents that shrink AI models to run on small chips
A University of Washington project that uses AI agents to fit AI models onto small, low-power chips won the Madrona Prize at the Allen School's annual Research Showcase. Other honorees included AI agents that write custom software for AI…
Filing: Chip startup Powerlattice raises $86M to ease AI’s power crunch
The new funding nearly triples what the Vancouver, Wash.-based semiconductor startup had raised when it came out of stealth last year. Powerlattice says its tech can cut AI chip energy use by more than half.
Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies. For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these technologies will help them in their daily…