The Displacement Wave

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

Wired · 11m ago

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.

Wired · 2h ago

Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

404 Media · 9h ago

The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool c

MIT Tech Review · 10h ago

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at.  In

MIT Tech Review · 11h ago

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

404 Media · 1d ago

Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear

Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.

Wired · 1d ago

The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

Wired · 1d ago

There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

Wired · 1d ago

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in reality, attempts by AI companies to set their own standards. T

AI Now · 1d ago

The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research offic

MIT Tech Review · 1d ago

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in t

MIT Tech Review · 1d ago

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own

At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.

Rest of World · 1d ago

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Wired · 2d ago

OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

Wired · 2d ago

Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped

The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema join the white bellbird in the winner’s circle of the loudest birds on Earth, with calls exceeding 120 decibels—louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.

404 Media · 2d ago

These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla

The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.

404 Media · 2d ago

The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warmin

MIT Tech Review · 2d ago

Making AI an asset, not an expense

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often wher

MIT Tech Review · 2d ago

OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns

The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.

Wired · 2d ago

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

Wired · 2d ago

The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face

AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.

Rest of World · 2d ago

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives.

MIT Tech Review · 3d ago

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we would never publish this data. We have neve

404 Media · 3d ago