OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon
OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.
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WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart.
Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’
In a motion to dismiss filed earlier this week, Meta denied claims that employees had downloaded pornography from Strike 3 Holdings to train its artificial intelligence models.
The Man Who Invented AGI
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.
WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and look closely at people’s complaints to the FTC alleging that ChatGPT led them or loved ones into AI psychosis.
Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending
Three of the biggest US tech companies reported record profits and record infrastructure spending on Wednesday, fueling speculation about a possible AI market bubble.
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor
As crypto-based prediction services attract a flood of attention and capital, the US president’s social media platform has announced plans to muscle in.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
OpenAI’s Sora Loses Its Top App Store Ranking to Dave’s Hot Chicken
Dave’s Hot Chicken is the top app in the iOS App Store, ending Sora’s weeks-long reign.