Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications.Smack Technologies, which announced a $32 million funding round this week, is developing models that it says will soon surpass Claude’s capabilities when it comes to planning and executing military operations. And, unlike Anthropic, the startup appears less concerned with banning specific types of military use.“When you serve in the military, you take an oath you’re going to serve honorably, lawfully, in accordance with the rules of war,” says CEO Andy Markoff. “To me, the…
Sharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea…
Freight fraud is a big and growing problem. A company called GenLogs is providing an exciting technological solution to this problem. The GenLogs solution provides real-time transportation visibility through thousands of cameras placed along the US’s busiest highways. The visual data is combined with sophisticated visual recognition technology. The cameras…
Guys, before we go to break, there’s something very near and dear to my heart that WIRED wrote about this week. It’s something I love even more than biathlon. It is undersea internet cables.Leah Feiger: I love when you talk about this. I think that the first time you brought…
During his eight seasons on Saturday Night Live, Will Forte often played the character MacGruber. It was a parody of that TV character Macgyver who could seemingly improvise a fix to practically anything. Well, now Forte is trying to bring much more attention via the “Honestly HD” campaign with Teva…
For decades, a blood draw in a clinical lab was the only way to quantify your hormones. In 2026, that paradigm is shifting and we are seeing saliva cartridges analyzed by smartphone AI, DNA-based biosensor patches, earring-back wearables, and sweat sensors are converging to make hormone tracking as routine as…
“Lin cannot seriously dispute that the decision to allow opioid sales on Incognito was his own,” the prosecution’s filing reads. “And, Lin made that decision knowing full well that encouraging opioids is tantamount to welcoming fentanyl poisonings.”Yet portions of the defense’s memos related to Lin’s sentencing point to several specific…
For most of the past decade, data sovereignty was a legal and compliance problem. Someone in the legal department handled it. IT built the network, bought the tools and if regulators had questions about where data lived, that was someone else’s job.That division of labor is breaking down—and honestly, it…
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which could lead to more than $175 billion in tariff refunds for American companies. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—the law that the Trump administration used to justify…
Zuckerberg repeatedly fell back on accusing Lanier of “mischaracterizing” his previous statements. When it came to emails, Zuckerberg typically objected based on how old the message was or his lack of familiarity with the Meta employees involved. “I don’t think so, no,” he replied when directed to clarify whether he…
After hundreds of workers were laid off in early February from Jack Dorsey’s Block, some of the people remaining at the company say the internal culture has devolved to a point where performance anxiety is running rampant, using generative AI is required, and overall morale is rapidly deteriorating. Block is…
Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The news comes just a few months after the startup raised $36 million in series A financing led…
A group of 23 Democratic US senators sent a letter Friday to the top federal regulator overseeing prediction markets, urging the agency to avoid weighing in on pending court cases over the legality of offerings on the platforms tied to “sports, war, and other prohibited events.”Prediction markets, which sell contracts…
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects things to improve only marginally in…
Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. “You’ve likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it is currently unvetted and high-risk for our environment,” he wrote in a Slack message with a red siren emoji. “Please keep Clawdbot off all…
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