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15 articles- Industry
OpenAI’s Dot Agent Finds Its Strength in Work You Control
A hands-on test found the $100-a-month AI agent stumbling over security checks and shopping flows, while succeeding at video editing, website redesign, and deployment.
- Industry
Amazon Meets AI Data Center Backlash With a Billion Pledge—and a Warning
As communities weigh more than 100 proposed moratoriums, Amazon is pairing promises on rates, jobs, and transparency with an argument that slowing construction could weaken the United States.
- Industry
The AI Memory Crunch Has Reached a Seven-Year-Old Streaming Box
Nvidia raised the Shield TV Pro from $199.99 to $299.99, telling Ars Technica that memory and other component costs have climbed across the industry.
- Industry
Apple Tightens macOS Full Disk Access as AI Agents Amplify Privacy Risks
Apple says broad disk permissions can expose files, mail, messages and browsing history without adequate understanding—a risk that grows as AI agents become more autonomous.
- Policy
Departing OpenAI Safety Writer Says Speed Has Outrun the Company’s Safeguards
David Robinson, who says he led safety reports for major OpenAI launches, resigned with a warning that reactive guardrails and constant sprinting are inadequate for more capable systems.
- Policy
OpenAI Safety Report Author Quits, Calling for Nuclear-Style Safeguards
David Robinson, who wrote safety reports for major OpenAI model releases, says frontier labs need slower planning, layered redundancy and a more cautious culture.
- Policy
Meta’s Muse Builds Living Relationship Files From What Users Share
Internal instructions reviewed by WIRED show Meta’s AI agent organizing evolving profiles of users’ friends, relatives, and colleagues—raising fresh questions about inferred social data.
- Industry
Text-message AI assistants move into calendars and family planning
A new wave of assistants uses familiar messaging apps to manage everyday tasks. Caddy and Fambot show how the approach spans personal reminders and household schedules.
- Research
K-Dense Opens a Local AI Research Assistant Built Around Auditable Work
The open-source K-Dense BYOK system keeps projects on researchers' machines and pairs an agent-written lab notebook with an independent, hash-linked activity record.
- Research
Study Finds Expert-Role Prompts Raise AI Costs Without Clear Accuracy Gains
A controlled evaluation of 503 scientific profession profiles found no consistent accuracy boost, while full prompts increased token use and estimated inference costs.
- Policy
Nurses Say AI Scheduling Is Creating New Risks Inside Hospitals
HCA nurses told WIRED that Palantir-powered scheduling can ignore preferences and leave teams understaffed or short on experience, while HCA says human leaders retain final control.
- Research
Trillium Labs Bets Open Research Can Make High-Risk AI Easier to Scrutinize
The new nonprofit plans to publish experiments on post-training, reinforcement learning and recursive self-improvement so outside researchers can examine and replicate the work.
- Industry
Patched ChatGPT Mac Flaw Exposed the Security Cost of Trusted AI Apps
Researchers found that malware already on a Mac could have abused a trusted ChatGPT component to reach chat logs, connected browser sessions, and other sensitive resources.
- Industry
Circuit Breaker Labs Stress-Tests AI for Psychological Risk in Real-World Speech
The five-person startup uses simulated users across ages, languages and cultures to probe how AI systems respond to dangerous interactions that unfold over time.
- Industry
Apple Moves to Rein In Full-Disk Access as AI Agents Expand Their Reach
Apple says Mac apps will face more deliberate approval requirements for full-disk access, as increasingly autonomous AI agents make broad system permissions more consequential.