Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted…
Did you buy a beanie from REI recently? The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you. New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March, requesting the…
The OpenAI outage occurred around 11 a.m. ET on Thursday and impacted a slew of services, including search, file uploads, agents, GPTs, voice mode, image generation, ChatGPT work, Compliance API, Deep Research, ChatGPT Atlas, and…
Flock tells WIRED that officers cannot run searches using prohibited attributes including religion and nationality, and that an attempt to search prohibited terms “will be blocked.” Asked what circumstances produce a warning in those two…
TSMC, meanwhile, has a corporate commitment to trust, a promise recognized across the industry — even by Nvidia founder Jensen Huang. That trust extends into tomorrow, which is why TSMC invests vast sums in developing process technology…
This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,”…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra…
Map showing path of two-node quantum network through Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: Can Knaut via OpenStreetMap Physicists demo first metro-area quantum computer network in Boston. Imagining a quantum internet capable of transmitting hacker-proof information…
Conceptual image illustrating how a machine-learning model trained on data constructed through multimodal literature mining and physical knowledge explores the vast compositional space of lead-free dielectrics and identifies candidate materials for experimental validation. Credit: Seoul…
For the past five years, security researcher Matt Burch has immersed himself in the esoteric and high-stakes world of ATM security, in which small software flaws can sometimes expose cold, hard cash. As Burch has…
