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Generated: 2026-10-24 22:00:01 | Timespan: 72h | Period: 24h
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web co…
Sundar Pichai says Google is far from the ‘end state’ of self-improving AI
Google employees are leaning more on AI to build better models, but CEO Sundar Pichai said RSI is in its early days.
Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Robe…
Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "co…
Goldman Sachs sees AI-fueled layoffs displacing nearly 10% of workers
Goldman Sachs said a recession could accelerate companies' adoption of AI and deepen AI-related job losses.
Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount o…
The director behind Yung Lean's viral 'Storm' video says AI imitations on social media made even good work look 'lame'
Romain Gavras, the director of Yung Lean's viral "Storm" video, said AI copies made him consider quitting filmmaking.
Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, …
Please Don’t Let an AI Bot Log Into Your Bank Account
Banks are warning against giving too much access to AI agents.
Stop Rewriting the Same AI Prompt Every Day. Build a Reusable Assistant Instead.
Learn how to create reusable AI prompts that streamline recurring tasks, improve output quality and make AI a more effective everyday business tool.
The Pentagon's guidelines for "responsible AI" aren't always followed, report shows
The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.
Arc browser is shutting down
The Browser Company plans to "sunset" its Arc browser on December 22nd, according to a post on the Arc website. The company moved on to developing its AI-focused Dia browser last year, but it had continued to maintain Arc. Now, the innovative browser will be …
Ukraine Is Wiping Out Data Centers Across the Border
Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged three major Yandex data centers as well as facilities serving Sberbank and VKontakte (the country's equivalent to Facebook), disrupting cloud services, banking, e-commerce, ride-hailing and other digital services across Ru…
A Western drone company explains why setting up shop in Ukraine is necessary to build better weapons for NATO
Croatia's ORQA is an established drone maker for NATO armies, but it says working in Ukraine and with its industry is the way to make the best gear.
1Password for Agents Keeps Your Passwords Hidden From AI
Popular password management app 1Password today announced 1Password for Agents, a platform that gives AI agents safe access to user credentials for completing tasks. The platform lets AI agents access logins, passwords, and other data without seeing or…
Elon Musk says training Tesla's Optimus robot is like raising a toddler
Elon Musk said Optimus has to learn by watching people do tasks and practicing them itself, a process similar to how humans learn.
Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs in an AI push
Barclays said it is cutting 5,000 jobs due to "technology change efficiency driven by AI."
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using yo…
iPhone Duo Jailbroken on Launch Day
Just hours after being released, an iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 has been jailbroken by hacker team Calif. Calif demonstrated the iPhone Duo's icons and widgets bouncing around, and added an anime character to the device's screen. Last week, the grou…
Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - including 36 of the ma…
Don't leave AI to tech bros and oligarchs, UK's AI minister says
Kanishka Narayan tells the BBC that dealing with the technology requires not only regulation, but "building capability and capacity".
Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. Open…
Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months, ever since publishing an essay in late …
Gizmodo Is Launching a Daily Newsletter About AI
Made by humans. Envied by bots. Typos are our.s
Google Chrome will let you know if a website 'doesn't seem right' with these updates
Google detailed several ways Chrome has stepped up its defenses against suspicious and "known" dangerous websites on desktop and Android.
I’m a comedian whose joke was stolen by an AI creator. I blame Meta and feel powerless.
George Brett Olson is among comedians who've recently been calling out AI accounts for ripping off their work.
Should we panic and turn off the internet?
AI is exposing security holes across the web. Cloudflare and Vercel executives explain the risks and why the internet could actually become safer.
Unvetted AI Agents Are Accessing US Bank Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell …
AI and Data Centers Will Impact Midterm Voting, According to Experts
Americans are mostly negative on AI and oppose new data centers near them, another poll shows.
Tons of People Are Apparently Asking Meta’s Muse AI Agent to Shop for Them
A quarter of Meta Muse’s 10 million users are shopping online via the AI agent with an average spend of $200 per purchase, according to Mark Zuckerberg.
The US Army is making a new $700 million bet on AI that helps soldiers turn battlefield intelligence into targets
The contract is a tenfold increase of the Army and Striveworks' previous $70 million contract and will expand AI use across units and missions.
A GOP congressman voted to cut Medicaid. It covers 62% of his district. Can he win?
Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao is fighting for reelection in central California. 6 in 10 residents of his district are covered by Medicaid, which he voted to cut last year.
The age of initiative
We’re unprepared. In high school, the quarterback isn’t allowed to call the plays, the actor isn’t allowed to write the lines and the math whiz isn’t allowed to choose what to prove. We all grew up in the age of compliance (and indoctrination). The long tail …
Laika has spent 20 years building up to Wildwood
Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still,…
Palmer Luckey Is Getting Into the Cybernetically Outfitted Super Soldier Dog Market
Mr. “I Would Definitely Build Nuclear Weapons” wants to turn man’s best friend into an AI-equipped supersoldier.
OnePlus rolls out Android 17 to the OnePlus 15 ahead of schedule
ColorOS 17 lands on the OnePlus 15, but it's missing the highly anticipated AI photo agent.
The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle Plus, and Amazon is betting big on AI audiobooks
Kindle+ arrives with more audiobooks, same price, and zero human narrators required.
Meta turns Muse sharing back on
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company's internal revenue review and a small business o…
Retro gaming is being overrun with AI
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral…
US stock futures slide after tech sell-off as oil climbs to 5-month highs
US stock futures slid Friday after Thursday's tech rout. Brent crude touched 5-month highs as investors worried about AI spending and geopolitics.
A New Bird-Recognizing Feeder Under $100 Launches for Beginner Bird-Watchers
Birdbuddy’s latest feeders offer free AI bird-species detection at the lowest prices ever. Here’s what you get.
Hugging Face Announces AI Model to ‘Chat’ With DNA
Carbon-X can analyze DNA sequences while running on your laptop at home.
I'm a CTO who was awake for 48 hours because of the PHP crisis. October feels like the month of hell for tech.
A CTO shares what it was like to go 48 hours without sleep as he dealt with the PHP security flaw — and why he expects more AI cyber crises.
Anthropic Introduces Claude Duet: A New Agentic AI App for Professionals
It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but it’s hyper specificity toward business owners and professionals.
Kids Probably Shouldn’t Plan on Wearing Smart Glasses to School
Wholesale bans of smart glasses in schools are becoming increasingly popular.
Gary Vaynerchuk knows where he'd start if he were 16 and launching a business today
Gary Vaynerchuk says AI could be as transformative for young entrepreneurs as the internet was.
iPhone Duo 2 Prototypes Include Under-Display Face ID
Apple's second-generation iPhone Duo could gain Face ID, with prototypes already incorporating the technology beneath the outer display, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest episode of his "Power On" podcast, Gurman described Apple's work …
Anthropic’s Claude Duet wants to do your job while you’re offline
Claude Duet isn’t just another chatbot — it’s an AI agent that actually gets work done.
Americans Say Rising Utility Costs Are Straining Their Budgets. They’re Blaming Data Centers
1 in 5 households have cut back on groceries because of energy bills, according to a new Consumer Reports survey.
The Mori Is a Mushroom-Shaped AI Lamp Companion, and I’m Smitten
The $849 Mori is designed to respond to your environment, knowing when to play and when to stay quiet.
Zuckerberg Wants To Build A Giant Online Network Of AI Agents
Maybe he can call it the "Museverse."
I Went From AI Prompt to 3D-Printed Armor in 18 Hours
What started off as a dare became a fully fledged app in less than a day
A Privacy Company Just Saved the Clearest Flock Surveillance Map I’ve Seen
The creator of Proton Mail now hosts a powerful, professional Flock camera mapping tool on its site.
The 3-in-1 Alloop Wearable Could Replace Both Your Wellness Wristband and Ring
The Alloop Trio also comes with a personal AI health agent.
I put Muse, Dot, and Instinct to the test. There was a clear winner, but not because it worked best.
I put bleeding-edge AI agent technology to the test: ordering me lunch, triaging my inbox, and building me a personal website.
The AI safety bottleneck: Save the world or get the bag
Opportunities and challenges abound for the people working the job that could actually save humanity.
The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of T…
A Dating App Is Offering ‘Chivalry Mode’ and ‘Marriage Timeline’ to Get Gen Z Married
Upward, a newly relaunched Christian app, is pitching trad values to a generation that barely even dates.
Sam Altman: ‘I No Longer Think We’re Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs’
We're all trying to find the guy who did this.
Pebble Just Made It Even Easier to Make Cool Watch Faces
The change allows for watchOS-style complications and new features for Core Devices' Index rings.
This Is What Our Mysterious Denisovan Cousins Probably Looked Like
It took a while, but researchers believe they now have a molecular marker to reliably spot Denisovan fossils.
These Melanoma Patients Got a Vaccine Made for Their Own Tumors. 2 Years Later, 82% Are Still Cancer-Free
An apparent leak prompted Merck and Moderna to release the full trial results ahead of schedule, but investors puzzlingly greeted the good news by sending the companies’ stock prices down.
The iPhone Duo Is Now in Our Custom-Made Foldable Phone Test Machine. Will It Beat the Galaxy Fold 8?
We’ll fold Apple’s iPhone Duo 900 times an hour to see how its hinge holds up.
7 iPhone Duo Apps That Take Full Advantage of the New Foldable Phone
Apple’s iPhone Duo brings iOS to a bigger tablet-like display, and these creative apps are already optimized to make the most of it.
Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger com…
The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?
Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders, the next Xbox is projected to cost between $1,200 and $1,800 when it arrives in 2028. My first reaction: The next Xbox is dead on arrival.…
Greece Enacts Social Media Ban For Kids Under 15
Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media platforms beginning January 1, 2027. The legislation requires platforms to implement reliable age verification and parents to use government-backed apps to restrict access, with penalties for…
Amex Says App and Website Disruptions ‘Not Caused by a Security Vulnerability’
American Express isn't saying precisely what caused the outages for some customers.
iOS 27 Cheat Sheet: Quickly Become an Expert on the New iPhone Update
From new features to updates, here’s everything you should know about iOS 27.
Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.
New iPhone Duo? Here are 4 Features You Should Check Out Now
A handful of neat capabilities help Apple’s foldable phone feel even more intuitive.
The 3 Types of Overload That Hurt Performance — and What to Do About Each One
Exploring the three forms of overload — cognitive, emotional and social — and how they quietly undermine focus, judgment and execution.
Delta can turn the iPhone Duo into your favorite folding handheld
The Delta gaming emulator has been upgraded with a plethora of new goodies and support updates, which includes optimizing it for Apple's iPhone Duo. Delta 2.0 also introduces Sega Genesis games, animated controller skins, custom Pokémon DLC experiences, and a…
Beyond the Review: Inside the Onyx RCR 80V E-Bike
The Onyx RCR 80V can hit motorcycle speeds, but after hundreds of miles in the saddle, I found there’s a lot more to this compact e-bike than going fast.
Beyond the Review: Inside the Onyx RCR 80V
The Onyx RCR 80V can hit motorcycle speeds, but after hundreds of miles in the saddle, I found there’s a lot more to this compact electric machine than going fast.
Coolfly’s solar-powered Aura Smart Bird Feeder is nearly 50 percent off
I’m not sure when birdwatching became so popular, but it seems everybody’s getting into it these days. If you want to see what all the fuss is about without leaving your couch, both Coolfly and Birdfy are discounting their camera-equipped bird feeders for a l…
PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and pla…
Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space
Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new apps and hardware during the company's annual hackathon events. "We're winding down The Garage program as a …
911 Outages Hit Multiple Cities in California
It's unclear if any of the outages have to do with "Black October."
Will Meta’s $25 Billion Court Loss Change Its Ways? (Spoiler: Probably Not)
A series of judgments and settlements don’t seem to be slowing Meta’s provocative privacy practices.
Why Meta is charging to post more hyperlinks
Social media sites aren't the biggest fans of people leaving via hyperlinks. In fact, Meta has made it subscription-worthy for a Facebook Page to post more than two hyperlinks per month. What's the rationale for companies want to keep you on their site?
What if you gave yourself a day to cancel all the plans you dread?
It's a day to think about all the upcoming appointments and commitments you're dreading — and then decline some of them. Writer Caroline Sylge shares a suggested schedule for the day.
Insiders Reportedly Say Tesla-SpaceX Merger Must Close Before Trump Leaves Office
It's not clear exactly why.
This New Device ‘Bricks’ Your Phone When You Enter Your Bedroom
If you struggle with doomscrolling when you should be sleeping, this new Brick could help.
UK working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning
Governments and companies are scrambling to protect their websites, as Amazon says it experienced attacks before the warning was made public.
How We Test Projectors
From contrast to color to input lag, I measure and compare home theater and portable projectors using instruments and my own two eyes.
Meta's massive deal for Zuckerberg proves execs aren't exempt from IRL work
The tech giant's effort to dissuade its CEO from relocating reflects a common belief that the best work happens when everyone is together in person.
Venture capitalists are questioning the neolab math
VCs are divided over whether neolabs can justify multibillion-dollar valuations. Plus, inside Menlo Ventures' 50th-anniversary party.
Lawsuits Allege Delivery Robots Recorded Biometric Data Without Permission
As delivery robots roll through cities like Chicago, they’re fueling fears about unregulated surveillance in public spaces.
How long does it take to save up for a starter home? Twice as long as it did in 2019
A new analysis finds that the average renter household now needs 16 years to save for a down payment and closing costs. Rising rents and other costs have consumed a growing share of household budgets.
Apple Limitis iPhone Duo Purchases to 2 Foldable Phones Per Person
For the first time in many years, Apple is limiting how many phones you can buy.
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