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Isabella Ward / Wired: How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech — Researchers cobbled…
Aarian Marshall / Wired: Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights — In at least two…
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety — Johannes Heidecke's departure…
OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company WIRED
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets WIRED
Boone Ashworth / Wired: 1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand — The soft, weirdly…
OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down WIRED
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows” — Claude subscribers…
Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5 WIRED
Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more than a decade…
Reece Rogers / Wired: As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users — As part of Meta's Muse Image model…
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years — Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a…
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company WIRED
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone WIRED
Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start WIRED
Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX? WIRED
Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces WIRED
The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models WIRED
Wired: Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects — Hundreds of contractors working on a…
Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-competition…
Wired: A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users — As Anthropic tightens…
Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations WIRED
OpenAI Has New AI Models. Here’s Why You Can’t Use Them WIRED
Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe WIRED
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data WIRED
Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes meetings with…
The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei WIRED
Lauren Goode / Wired: Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 — Modular, one of the most…
Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice — The new Meta-branded…
Wired: Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations — Employees had previously raised concerns about…
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more — Amid concerns about AI…
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos WIRED
Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump WIRED
Hugo Lowell / Wired: New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling” &mdash…
Wired: Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China — Days before Anthropic took its most…
Hugo Lowell / Wired: Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible — Trump administration officials…
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy WIRED
The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible WIRED
Wired: Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks — In an internal memo seen by…
Molly Taft / Wired: Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War — In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over…
Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 WIRED
Wired: Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September — The federal government is planning to let…
Zeyi Yang / Wired: Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people — A cottage industry of celebrity…
Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order WIRED
Wired: Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, “soul-crushing” work, more — Executives and employees alike…
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app — Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI…
Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet WIRED
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic backtracks on a policy limiting Claude Fable 5's ability to develop other AI models, after significant backlash from the AI research community — The company changed course after…
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude WIRED
Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini WIRED