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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change

A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.

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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield.

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I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App

SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.

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An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts

Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.

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Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know

A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up.

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OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram.

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The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto With World Liberty Financial

After coming out in favor of crypto, the Trump family is launching a venture of its own. You’ll just have to wait for the details.

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OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum

Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action.

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AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry.

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The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder

Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it.

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