Tag Archives: Wired

Canva Revolutionized Graphic Design. Will It Survive the Age of AI?

Generative AI could have been an existential threat for Canva, which made billions by making graphic design quick and easy. But for CEO Melanie Perkins, it’s simply making the world more visual.

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In Sam Altman We Trust?

This week on Uncanny Valley, we do a deep dive on Open AI’s Sam Altman.

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OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.

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AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.

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Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Pleads Guilty To Fraud

The founder of crypto lender Celsius has admitted to lying to customers about how their money would be used and manipulating markets for his personal gain.

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A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI

MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.

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Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life

Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy.

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Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025

At WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said next year Airbnb could have “one of the biggest reinventions” in recent memory.

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Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a plan to bring AI infrastructure to countries around the world, and he’s pitching it in person.

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OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind

The new hires, all experts in computer vision, are the latest AI researchers to jump to a direct competitor in an intensively competitive talent market.

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