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Wired AIValleyHere’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

11.03

Wired AIValley‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.

11.03

Wired AIValleyWhen You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.

11.02

Wired AIValleyHundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.

11.02

Wired AIValleyChatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.

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Wired AIValleySpooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims Named Volta-Autodoxer, the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.

10.31

Wired AIValleyMeta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.

10.31

Wired AIValleyAn AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

10.31

Wired AIValleyHow a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

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Wired AIValleyA Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

10.29

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo