WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped Summary On an episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, host Zoë Schiffer and senior politics writer Jake Lahut recap five notable WIRED stories from the week…
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
Summary When Adobe released the PDF in 1993 it recreated the look and authority of printed documents for the digital age. Now Adobe is embedding generative AI deeply into Acrobat…
Secure AI Use Without the Blind Spots
Secure AI Use Without the Blind Spots Content Summary This Dark Reading piece by Joan Goodchild stresses that many organisations are adopting AI quickly but without formal, enforceable AI policies…
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire Summary A report from MIT’s NANDA initiative finds US companies have invested an estimated $35–$40 billion in Generative…
Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells
Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells Summary Microsoft has added a COPILOT function to Excel that lets users invoke Copilot directly from worksheet cells. Used like any Excel…
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk Summary Taikonauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station have been using an on‑board AI, reported…
Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show
Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show Summary Researchers from the University of Oxford argue that widely cited benchmark scores for facial recognition —…
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Summary Adobe is deepening generative-AI integration into the PDF with the launch of Acrobat Studio and expanded AI assistant features. What…
LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All
LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All Summary A Prospect magazine feature — highlighted on Slashdot — argues LinkedIn has become increasingly “fake” as it layers AI on top…
AI ‘Business Agents’ Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft
Microsoft corporate VP Charles Lamanna predicts that ‘AI business agents’—systems combining generative-AI interfaces, goal-oriented automation and vector databases—will supplant much of today’s form-driven, workflow-based SaaS by 2030. He expects industry…