A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…
The only company to have surpassed the $5 trillion market cap is Nvidia. Currently, there are only 10 public companies in the trillion-dollar club. From highest to lowest market capitalization, these companies are Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet (GOOGL +1.31%) (GOOG +1.33%), Microsoft, Amazon, Semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan, Metaplatforms, Broadcom, TeslaAnd Berkshire Hathaway. Within this cohort, only…
‘He Gets Us’ campaign returns with another ad In the final moments of the broadcast, the evangelical groups behind the “He Gets Us” campaign poke at consumerism and greed to ask, “Is there more to life than more?” It’s the fourth straight year the group has advertised in the Super Bowl, and the controversial campaign…
As spotted by GameDiscoverCothe updated form now clarifies that it only applies to content “consumed by players”, its scope including – but not limited to – artwork, audio, localization, narration, marketing materials, what appears on a game’s Steam page, and all Steam community assets. At the same time, the form clarifies that, as far as…
Figure 1. Ralph Wiggum has recently been the talk of the AI coding developer community, as Vivek on X explains. The “Ralph loop” in Claude Code adds a “verify and try again” loop to agentic coding tasks. Many users found it remarkably useful for completing some agentic coding tasks, so the method has gone viral….
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — Nebraska senators heard bills Monday afternoon that would put guardrails in place for AI programs, trying to ensure tech companies can continue to innovate while protecting the most vulnerable. Pew Research Data show that 64% of teens say they use AI chatbots, including three in 10 who use them daily. As…
The software giant is being outdone in innovation by AI start-ups. Actions of Microsoft (MSFT 2.86%) collapsed last week following the tech giant’s latest earnings report. Investors were likely worried about slowing cloud growth, massive increases in AI infrastructure capital spending, and the revelation that nearly half of its order book was tied to OpenAI….
Michael Kitces and Ben Henry-Moreland ask whether these long-term problems require a solution other than AI? JANUARY 21, 2026 By Ben Henry-Moreland and Michael Kitces As companies grow and merge over time, they accumulate technical debt. Technologies, capabilities, and processes that in a perfect world would be retooled and improved every time the company grows…
Today we are launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models delivering industry-leading transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency. The family includes Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications. Voxtral Realtime is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re also launching an audio playground in Mistral Studio to test…
(FOX 9) – Police efforts to reduce fatal crashes on Highway 7, from St. Louis Park to St. Bonifacius, are showing promising results, with enhanced law enforcement thanks to AI technology credited with helping eliminate traffic deaths by 2025. Police use AI technology to arrest lawbreakers and reduce deaths What we know: The South Lake…