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'Piece by Piece' Director Morgan Neville Will Neve...
Back in 2021, Morgan Neville thought using AI to recreate the late Anthony Bourdain’s voice would be an interesting Easter egg in his documentary. He ended up being a canary in Hollywood’s AI coal mine.
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the...
OpenAI promised payouts to custom GPT creators. Now most are turning to outside sources for revenue.
Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some...
Is a deal really a deal? Amazon’s ChatGPT competitor, a chatbot it calls Rufus, will now answer some user questions on price changes.
How Should We Feel About Ring?
Amazon's popular security camera brand now has some AI enhancements that make it easier to sort through footage. But we have to ask: Is more AI-powered surveillance a good thing, or a step too far?
How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of ...
It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton change broader scientific incentives?
Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping fo...
Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.
Ring’s New AI Search Tool Lets You Easily Scan Vid...
The Amazon-owned home-surveillance business will offer users the ability to search footage for specific objects and actions. WIRED gave it a try.
The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a...
The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations.
The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening
OpenAI built a reputation for making bold research bets before others. After a recent brain drain, it needs to attract a new generation of researchers to keep this going.
Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?
The captains of industry that were going to pilot us through new virtual worlds are still around. They're just going by a new name.
The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowin...
OpenAI’s spree of licensing agreements is paying off already—at least in terms of getting publishers to lower their guard.
This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When ...
British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.
Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips
The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
AI's Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries?
Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber.
This Video Game Controller Has Become the US Milit...
After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a ...
ChatGPT’s new canvas interface can suggest improvements to writing and code as well as make in-line changes.