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Wired AIValleyEurope Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in The Way A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.

10.21

Wired AIValleyFrench Government Calls Emergency Meetings With Platforms Over Protests TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.

10.20

Wired AIValleyAn AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.

10.20

Wired AIValleyOpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”

10.19

Wired AIValleyWhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.

10.19

Wired AIValleyDisney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

10.19

Wired AIValleyOnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts.

10.18

Wired AIValleyData Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

10.18

Wired AIValleyWhy AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes The DNA inside our cells isn’t just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don't yet have the data to properly decode it.

10.17

Wired AIValleyKatie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

10.16

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo