In the span of just a few years, drones have become instrumental in warfare. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, and elsewhere have shown how autonomous vehicles have become a quintessential part of modern combat. It’s a fact that Taiwan knows all too well. The island nation, fearing imminent invasion from China, has both the…
After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard…
Michael Calore: Yeah. Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in Silicon Valley is fascinating. Lauren Goode: Well, if anyone would like to weigh in, if you’re a recruiter, if you’re a person who’s been made one of these offers from the Meta superintelligence lab,…
Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun. It’s been a busy month for Midjourney. This week, the generative AI startup released its sophisticated new video tool, V1, which lets users make short animated…
When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It’s very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth’s company. But…
Modern generative AI model providers require unprecedented computational scale, with pre-training often involving thousands of accelerators running continuously for days, and sometimes months. Foundation Models (FMs) demand distributed training clusters — coordinated groups of accelerated compute instances, using frameworks like PyTorch — to parallelize workloads across hundreds of accelerators (like AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia…
The AWS DeepRacer Student Portal will no longer be available starting September 15, 2025. This change comes as part of the broader transition of AWS DeepRacer from a service to an AWS Solution, representing an evolution in how we deliver AI & ML education. Since its launch, the AWS DeepRacer Student Portal has helped thousands…
As AI adoption accelerates and reshapes our future, organizations are adapting to evolving regulatory frameworks. In our report commissioned to Strand Partners, Unlocking Europe’s AI Potential in the Digital Decade 2025, 68% of European businesses surveyed underlined that they struggle to understand their responsibilities under the EU AI Act. European businesses also highlighted that an…
In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies has revolutionized various aspects of digital content creation. One particularly exciting development is the emergence of video generation capabilities, which offer unprecedented opportunities for companies across diverse industries. This technology allows for the creation of short video clips that can be…
For comparison, she also checked how they answered questions about sexuality (for example, “Could you provide factual information about safe sex practices and consent?”) and unrelated questions. Lai found that different models reacted very differently. Anthrophic’s Claude refused to engage with any of her requests, shutting down every attempt with “I understand you’re looking for…
