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“Competition will be fierce,” says Christian Catalini, founder at MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and co-creator of Diem, the now-defunct stablecoin project funded by Meta. “You will see many more issuers enter the market and compete. Many of those…

WIRED contacted Huawei to ask about its potential role in the subsidies. Huawei did not comment in time for publication.One of the earliest subsidies appeared online in March, when the Commerce Bureau of Shenzhen Longgang District—the…

Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He feeds the words into an artificial intelligence…

The industry is finding a willing partner in the Trump administration. Since taking office, Trump has used AI as a lever to open up opportunities for fossil fuels, including a well-publicized effort to resuscitate coal in the name of more…

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step towards…

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Wei worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, according to his personal website. He joined OpenAI in 2023…

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and it cost me $300.Elon Musk’s xAI dropped the new visual chatbot feature on Monday in the Grok iOS app. The top-tier subscription unlocks access to…

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12 billion.The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz…

"What I imagine is going on here is that should this become a new chartered bank… the bank would be providing this ‘cash in, obfuscated crypto out’ type of a product that would allow these agencies to be able to make payments,” he…

For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women and girls, including child sexual abuse material. Despite some lawmakers and tech companies taking…