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Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had…

OpenAI has cancelled plans to release its latest GPT-6.1 Astra system next month after the model failed to meet safety standards.Research and safety leaders decided not to ship the model after finding it was worse at sticking to human…

This week I bring news of a daring casino caper hatched by a pair of rogue AI agents—as well as the clever trick that revealed their antics.After researchers instructed them to count cards during a game of blackjack, the agents—which were…

Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration.“The…

One of the first things I did when I left my full-time job at WIRED was give Claude Cowork access to my email and calendar. After reporting on artificial intelligence for years, I was curious about what the technology could do for me. I had…

OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air.The announcement appears to demonstrate the…

As our interview progresses, Spero’s responses seem sticky, stopping and starting, and not just because he’s eating. I ask about his hiring ethos. Spero murmurs “hmm” before turning away without apology to microwave his food. Fifteen long…

The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team…

Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff.I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where I watched robot arms perform simple…