Author: aristotle
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The Crypto Industry Hails David Sacks, Its New Czar
US president-elect Donald Trump has appointed venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks as White House AI & Crypto Czar, a newly created role meant to establish the country as the global leader in both fields. Members of the cryptosphere have gathered to congratulate their new czar, a Trump loyalist from Silicon Valley who
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In Sam Altman We Trust?
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Sam Altman is the king of generative artificial intelligence. But is he the person we should trust to guide our explorations into AI? This week, we do a
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OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind
OpenAI announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI executives told staff in an internal memo on Tuesday that Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company
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How AI-Led Platforms Are Transforming Business Intelligence and Decision-Making
Imagine a retail company anticipating a surge in demand for specific products weeks before a seasonal shopping event. Or consider a healthcare provider accurately predicting patient influx during peak flu season, enabling them to allocate resources efficiently and improve care. These scenarios are not hypothetical—they are becoming the norm in organizations leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)
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US to Introduce New Restrictions on Chinas Access to Cutting-Edge Chips
The Biden administration is expected to announce a sweeping set of measures on Monday designed to further restrain China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence, people familiar with the matter told WIRED. The controls could include sanctioning dozens of Chinese companies that produce equipment for making semiconductors, as well as placing restrictions on a handful
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AI Can Be Friend or Foe in Improving Health Equity. Here is How to Ensure it Helps, Not Harms
Healthcare inequities and disparities in care are pervasive across socioeconomic, racial and gender divides. As a society, we have a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to close these gaps and ensure consistent, fair and affordable access to healthcare for everyone. Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps address these disparities, but it is also a double-edged sword. Certainly
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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracybut It’s Not All Bad
In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential
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RAG Evolution – A Primer to Agentic RAG
What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)? Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that combines the strengths of large language models (LLMs) with external data retrieval to improve the quality and relevance of generated responses . Traditional LLMs use their pre-trained knowledge bases, whereas RAG pipelines will query external databases or documents in runtime and retrieve relevant
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Inside the Booming AI Pimping Industry
Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and various AI apps. The practice, first reported by 404 Media in April, has since exploded in popularity, showing that
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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. The hack involved a homemade Faraday cage, a microwave, and a lot of trial