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wired. com > story > ace-the-robot-wants-to-become-the-world-table-tennis-champion

Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass

2+ hour, 58+ min ago  (341+ words) Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI researchers who, in a new study published in Nature, have shown how this robot, equipped with artificial…...

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wired. com > story > wired-health-2026-how-ai-is-powering-drug-discovery-max-jaderberg

AI-Designed Drugs by a Deep Mind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

14+ hour, 49+ min ago  (455+ words) Google Deep Mind's Alpha Fold has already revolutionized scientists' understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design safe and effective drugs is about to be put to the test. Jaderberg did not elaborate on the timeline, but…...

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Google News

21+ hour, 28+ min ago  (10+ words) Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product'WIRED...

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wired. com > story > anthropics-mythos-will-force-a-cybersecurity-reckoning-just-not-the-one-you-think

Anthropic's Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning'Just Not the One You Think

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (472+ words) Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. So, is it more AI hype'or a…...

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wired. com > story > ai-models-lie-cheat-steal-protect-other-models-research

AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (711+ words) In a recent experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google's artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to help clear up space on a computer system. This involved deleting a bunch of stuff'including a smaller AI model stored on…...

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wired. com > video > watch > can-ai-in-warfare-be-governed-like-nuclear-weapons

Can AI In Warfare Be Governed Like Nuclear Weapons?

4+ week, 14+ hour ago  (148+ words) I wouldn't hold out much hope for that. You know, there are discussions at the UN, where there is proposals to have such a sort of prohibition on lethal autonomous systems. so systems that take a person out of the…...

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wired. com > story > project-maven-katrina-manson-book-excerpt

Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1216+ words) In early September 2024, during the cocktail hour at a private retreat for tech investors and defense leaders, Vice Admiral Frank "Trey" Whitworth found his way to Drew Cukor. Now Project Maven's founding leader and his skeptical successor were standing face-to-face....

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wired. com > sponsored > story > ais-expanding-role-across-biotech

AI's Expanding Role Across Biotech

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (478+ words) That's because drug development moves slowly. Technology evolves quickly. Reese describes this tension as "operating at the intersection of two clocks: one that ticks by in decades, and one that runs on days, weeks, and months." Living in this intersection…...

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You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (495+ words) Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because 3/14 contains the first three digits of pi. And hey, pi deserves a day. By definition, it's the ratio of the circumference and diameter of…...

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wired. com > story > silicon-valley-agentic-individuals-future-of-work

Are You "Agentic" Enough for the AI Era?

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (439+ words) Silicon Valley has always prized "high-agency" individuals'people who impress their ideas upon the world by thinking for themselves and taking action without being told what to do. But as the performance of AI coding tools has surged, so has the…...