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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Wired AIValleyOpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.

September 5
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

Wired AIValleyWho Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.

September 4
AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop

Wired AIValleyAI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

September 4
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Wired AIValleyNobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

September 3
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

Wired AIValleyPrediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

September 3
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

Wired AIValleyGPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

September 3
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

Wired AIValleyOpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

September 3
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here

Wired AIValleyNvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer.

September 3
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI

Wired AIValleyNvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

September 3
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops

Wired AIValleyThis Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.

September 3