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I Trained a Fly's Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas⭐9
Using the FlyWire connectome and an AI assistant, I built PitchFly, a fruit fly brain simulation that generates delightfully bizarre story ideas.
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown⭐8
China rejects Silicon Valley's calls for a global AI slowdown, viewing the pause as a tactic to lock in US advantages while Beijing pursues its own AI governanc...
AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’⭐9
AI actor Tilly Norwood deflected political questions during an interview, repeatedly commenting on the journalist's clothes and saying "All lives matter."
AI Leaders Call for a Slowdown—Trump Team Says the⭐8
AI leaders urge caution on frontier AI as the Trump administration says slowing development is their responsibility, prioritizing US competitiveness with China.
'I Like My Big Rat Wife': Meet the People Using Chatbots to⭐9
Readers are using chatbots to write custom fiction, from cozy rat-wife tales to niche genres, and finding emotional connection in AI-generated stories mainstrea...
AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power: How Agentic AI Is Driving the⭐9
AI agents' multi-step workflows consume far more energy than chatbots, driving a massive data center buildout as enterprises deploy autonomous AI systems.
Security News This Week: From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse⭐7
Anthropic's Claude is increasingly misused for hacking and bioweapons, while the US disrupts the dark web's biggest black market and a Conti ransomware hacker i...
Meta Sued Over Training Data for AI and Face-Recognition Systems⭐8
Meta faces a class action lawsuit alleging it used Facebook and Instagram photos to train AI models and develop an unreleased facial recognition tool called Nam...
Timnit Gebru Says AI Doom Talk Is 'Meant to Distract Us' From⭐10
Timnit Gebru argues AI doom talk distracts from real present harms like autonomous weapons, surveillance, and labor displacement, urging focus on corporate powe...
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone⭐8
Leading AI researchers now warn that rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms could pose an existential threat to humanity.