Category Artificial Intelligence

Wired Podcast Maps the Most Plausible AI Catastrophes as Safety Fight Turns Political

AI safety is now a mainstream fight. Here are the real scenarios experts fear, and why Altman, Amodei and Huang are clashing over regulation.

PrismML says its tiny LLM can run on PCs and phones while keeping nearly all performance, reshaping on-device AI and privacy.

The FAA is spending $875 million on FAA AI software Smart to predict traffic flows, reduce conflicts and ease controller shortages.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol left hidden notes to successors to conceal mistakes, underscoring growing AI safety concerns.

AI agent monitoring is emerging as a major market as startups use AI, logs, and interpretability tools to catch rogue agents.

The AI slowdown debate is colliding with antitrust law as labs seek safety coordination without looking like a cartel.

The UN and Google launched an AI-ready data commons to make global statistics easier for AI agents to find, cite and use.

The AI safety debate is shifting from risk to control, as Meta, Anthropic and others clash over who should write the rules.

AI leaders are publicly backing an AI safety slowdown after major incidents, raising questions about regulation, competition and superintelligence.

New filings in The New York Times case allege AI scraping, paywall bypass and internal warnings that news training hurt publishers.