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DHS reveals that NEC is the vendor that sold Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition app used by federal immigration agents to identify people in the field, to CBP (www.wired.com)
1 day ago Mobile Immigration Facial Recognition

Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against “asking for personally identifiable” info (www.wired.com)
2 days ago

Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage (www.wired.com)
2 days ago

How the explicit deepfake ecosystem evolved from images to high-quality video; an analysis shows 1.4M+ Telegram accounts signed up to 39 deepfake creation bots (www.wired.com)
3 days ago

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (www.wired.com)
5 days ago

Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (www.wired.com)
6 days ago

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (www.wired.com)
7 days ago Google AI

An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers (www.wired.com)
7 days ago China AI

China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (www.wired.com)
8 days ago China AI Algorithm

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (www.wired.com)
11 days ago AI

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (www.wired.com)
12 days ago

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (www.wired.com)
13 days ago

As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (www.wired.com)
13 days ago VR

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama (www.wired.com)
13 days ago

Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (www.wired.com)
14 days ago Google

A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (www.wired.com)
14 days ago

Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (www.wired.com)
15 days ago Trump AI

Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (www.wired.com)
16 days ago AI

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (www.wired.com)
19 days ago

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (www.wired.com)
20 days ago Real Estate

OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (www.wired.com)
21 days ago

Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (www.wired.com)
21 days ago

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs (www.wired.com)
23 days ago Nvidia

Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (www.wired.com)
23 days ago Google Robot Boston Dynamics

Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds (www.wired.com)
24 days ago

Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of stablecoins circulating rose from ~$250B to $300B+, as they become the “respectable” face of crypto (www.wired.com)
2025-12-29

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (www.wired.com)
2025-12-25 Apple Budget Detroit

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-12-25 Google AI

Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak (www.wired.com)
2025-12-24 Google Reddit

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (www.wired.com)
2025-12-20

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