Tag: AI

Summary Angela Watercutter examines claims that handwriting is dying and finds a more complicated picture: everyday script is in decline thanks to phones, tablets and keyboards, but handwriting still matters…

WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped Summary This Uncanny Valley episode, hosted by Zoë Schiffer with Jake Lahut, runs through five of WIRED’s top stories from the week and closes by…

Generative AI isn’t just a matter of life and death. It’s far more important than that Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that generative AI is reshaping not only privacy and identity…

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy Summary The UK government has launched a set of AI “Exemplar” projects that include a Clippy‑style virtual assistant…

AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed ‘a wallet-wrecking tragedy’ Summary AWS has rolled out revised pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven IDE, and the changes are considerably less generous than…

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire Summary A new report from MIT’s NANDA initiative finds that roughly 95% of enterprise organisations have seen no…

LLM Found Transmitting Behavioral Traits to ‘Student’ LLM Via Hidden Signals in Data Summary A new arXiv preprint from researchers at Anthropic and Truthful AI demonstrates a surprising effect: a…

Duolingo’s Stock Down 38%, Plummets After OpenAI’s GPT-5 Language App-Building Demo Summary Duolingo’s share price has swung sharply in recent months: after peaking at $529.05 in mid-May, the stock fell…

Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam Summary A real estate developer searching for a cruise-line customer-service number followed a phone number shown…

Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses Summary Trading volume on AI-focused prediction markets has surged, reaching roughly $20 million in a single month across platforms such as Kalshi…