Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots
AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.
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Kara Swisher Would Rather Work for Sam Altman Than Mark Zuckerberg
But ideally, the journalist and podcast host would rather not work for tech CEOs at all.
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.
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…
Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact
The Trump administration has recast Binance founder CZ as a martyr—and his pardon may have unintended consequences for the US crypto industry.
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.
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.
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 complaints to the FTC alleging that ChatGPT led them or loved…
“I Sweated So Much I Never Needed to Pee”: Life in China’s Relentless Gig Economy
In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at the edge of China’s booming ecommerce industry.
A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire
An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena.