How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War
The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”
Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthr...
Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.
‘AI guilt’ is stopping important conversations about safe use, researchers say
AI guilt is the feeling that using AI is somehow cheating. That stigma, experts say, is preventing the conversations needed to teach people how to use the AI safely.
Siemens expansion expected to bring 100 jobs to Saskatoon
Siemens Canada is expanding its Saskatoon operations at Saskatchewan's research and technology park, expected to create 100 new jobs over the next two years.
AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI
Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.
Hamilton city council rejects one-year pause on AI data centres
Hamilton rejected on Wednesday a temporary pause on new data centres that was eyed as a possible model for other municipalities amid the artificial intelligence boom.
Ivy League economics professor suspects half his students cheat using AI
Roberto Serrano detected irregularities in many exams, including chunks of text that 'matched the answers I received when I provided the exam questions to ChatGPT.'
Hamilton is on the verge of a data centre moratorium vote. Others are taking notice.
Hamilton would join a wave of cities in the United States who have passed similar pauses for possible artificial intelligence data centres.
‘We must act now’ on AI’s economic impacts, says economists
Hundreds of economists say in an open letter that institutions “must act now” to address how artificial intelligence could transform the economy.
Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round
Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapp...
Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor deman...
Data sovereignty emerges as the defining moat in the agentic AI era
As agentic AI accelerates enterprise transformation, data sovereignty is crystallizing from a compliance checkbox into a foundational strategic imperative — one that determines not just where dat...
Canadian government proposing ‘massive’ increase in AI data centre capacity
Canada currently has about 337 megawatts of AI data centre capacity, and there are more than 20 gigawatts, or 20,000 megawatts in projects that are "under planning or development."