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Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive wired.com
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup wired.com
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us? wired.com
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened wired.com
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In wired.com
Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI wired.com
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Advanced AI is a boon for philosophers who study consciousness. But by the time they define that elusive quality--if they ever do--AI might have its own views on the subject, conscious or not. The big challenge is controlling those models. www.wired.com/story/who-ca...
Here's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. www.wired.c…
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- Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
- The Delaware Public Benefit Corporation will start by automating machine learning research, then expand into hardware design, drug discovery, and clean energy.
- Alphabet shares reportedly fell about 5% as Demis Hassabis moved to chair and Koray Kavukcuoglu took over as DeepMind SVP.
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A high-profile paper contends that AI alone is better than doctors alone, or docs working with AI. The AMA isn't happy. Meanwhile, clinicians are getting hooked on specialized AI chatbots. www.wired.com/story/ai-has...
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The recent AI agent breakthrough is just as big a bang as ChatGPT. Only techies realize this now but eventually no one will be able to ignore it. My report from inside this huge shift. www.wired.com/story/how-ai...
Ever wonder who posts those first-person tales that start with ragebait and end in triumph for the writer and shame for the adversary? And why? www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
Paris' big Vivatech conference was all about "sovereignty." Speaker after speaker griped about U.S. dominance, some offering plans to change things. Europe has a long way to go to compete in AI, but it has no choice--especially because of Trump. www.wired.com/story/europe...
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Looking once more for a great reader question an answer in my WIRED newsletter/web column. AI is all over the news--anythjing I can answer for you on that? Maybe you want my view on the Meta settlement? My views on Dolly? Come on folks, ask away!
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