The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

‘Reacher’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap And Review: This Isn’t Even A Jack Reacher Show Anymore

Reacher Season 4, Episode 7 turns Jack Reacher into a reckless killer who can’t solve the obvious mystery, as the Prime Video series drifts further from the character fans know.

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

As AI agents go rogue and fears of superintelligence grow, politicians are raising the alarm over its potential harm to human existence.

Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment
Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January …

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999
Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999

Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ul…

Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it
Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it

Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watc…

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The headline feature is a camera that can change its aperture, which no iPhone has done before. Two of the phone’s flagship features will not work in Europe at launch. Apple announced both mo…

The average American PC now costs more than $1,000
The average American PC now costs more than $1,000

The average PC sold in the United States now costs more than $1,000. That has never happened before. Average sell-in prices crossed the line in the second quarter, up 12.0% year on year, according to Omdia. US shipments grew 1.0% in the quarter to 18.8…

Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae into a €10bn French software group
Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae into a €10bn French software group

Silver Lake is merging two companies it already owns. Cegid and Silae are both French. Both are majority-owned by the American private equity firm. On Wednesday they announced their intention to merge. The deal is expected to value the combined group a…