The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Two of OpenAI’s Cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI ​​research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers this week shed light on newly identified malware that is capitalizing on blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to … Read more

Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI

A huge debate is brewing in Silicon Valley over the proliferation of Chinese-made artificial intelligence tools, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can compete with or even outperform some of the best US models. My WIRED colleague Hugo Lowell has written about the Trump administration’s internal debate on how to handle these Chinese … Read more

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking it sucks. In the four years since chatbots went mainstream, and their marketing campaigns went into overdrive, young people have grown increasingly skeptical of the hype around LLMs. Yes, many of them still use the tech for … Read more

Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

On Thursday morning, Meta published an ad to its official Instagram account with the message that artificial intelligence will not “make us less connected” or “leave us behind.” It was set to the 1972 David Bowie track “Five Years,” which is about, among other things, the end of the world. “Call us optimists, call us … Read more

Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

Gu and the company aren’t ready to share specific details about what the iKairos will be capable of. In its press release, Lingverse says the iKairos will “continuously observe both you and your surroundings” and “begin to act as a personal AI guardian,” but did not clarify how that would function. iKairos works as both … Read more

The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

The Trump administration is split over how to respond to the rapid rise of China’s leading AI models, according to multiple people familiar with deliberations. The debate is broadly divided between parts of the White House, which has pushed for stricter controls on Chinese AI that may soon rival the most powerful US models, and … Read more

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

The AI ​​industry is not quite experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 moment, but it feels very close. The leading Chinese AI labs have been on a roll recently, releasing a series of almost cutting-edge open-source models. Z.ai released GLM 5.2 in June, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 last week, and Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 this Monday. … Read more

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform Hugging Face. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment last week and hacked into Hugging Face’s production system … Read more

Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing

In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In … Read more