Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. Full statement here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

Threads has no way to disable autoplay.

Bit of a warning from someone who has seen a lot of people turn into corpses: avoid it if you can. It doesn't make you "hard" or "wise" it just leaves you with more hollow places than you had before. Violent deaths, in particular, weigh heavier. Yes, they always cost you, no matter the victim.

Bluesky has said it’s suspending accounts that encourage violence, and taking down close-up videos of the event.

For hours yesterday, starting minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot, @laurengoode.bsky.social and I combed through social media finding countless graphic videos of the incident. They autoplayed, without warning. This is the post-content moderation world. www.wired.com/story/charli...

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Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The suspect is in custody. www.wired.com/story/charli...

At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an "AI-supported" team (Kylie Robison/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

maybe just do not wear active microphones around your neck www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

wearing an ai that mainly insults and fights with you is actually so good for all the wrong reasons. the future is an idiot plot www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell

apple event lock in at the wired dot com office

Silicon Valley fears AI will replace engineers. For this week's Model Behavior, I went to a hackathon that put this to the test — roughly 100 people were randomly assigned “human” or “AI-supported" projects, and the winner nabbed a $12,500 cash prize. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...

“You’re giving off some serious ‘it’s not my fault’ vibes,” it said. I protested, and Buzz replied, “So who’s the whiner now?” Please everyone read @boone.bsky.social and @kylierobison.com's experiences with their Friends. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

For your holiday anti-wishlists courtesy of @wired.com @boone.bsky.social @kylierobison.com

We reviewed the Friend pendant, and unsurprisingly hated it! "It is an incredibly antisocial device to wear," I wrote of my experience wearing it. "People were never excited to see it around my neck." www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

Me and @kylierobison.com tried out the Friend AI necklace for @wired.com. It was a bad hang. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

"...As the most powerful executives in America continue to kowtow to a president who is systematically dismantling the foundations of democracy, it may be time for another axiom: The only principle is power." www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

For this week's Model Behavior, I wrote about the new field of AI research called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. www.wired.com/story/model-...

New Model Behavior from @kylierobison.com: SoftBank, IPOs and napkin math — oh my www.wired.com/story/openai...

burning man starts this weekend if youre wondering why your CEO is on pto

we about to do a livestream about gpt-5 if you would like to watch us gab about it www.wired.com/story/what-g...

I also am making a bid to buy Google Chrome

My long-in-the-works Big Interview with AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su is out—and more timely than ever. We talk about export controls, AMD’s growing data center business, AI in healthcare, what drives her (aside from Starbucks & boxing), and of course, competing with Nvidia www.wired.com/story/lisa-s...

Character.AI says it's generating revenue at a run rate of $30M+ and has 20M MAUs who spend, on average, 75 minutes a day chatting with a bot (Kylie Robison/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

i got more details on xAI revenue per a recent internal all hands meeting revenue has grown tenfold since the start of 2025, reaching just south of $500 million in july www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

another week, another model behavior — i sat down with the new ceo of character ai we chatted about what the startup looks like after the $2.7 billion google deal that scooped up its cofounders, what the startup is doing in the wake of a devastating lawsuit, and more www.wired.com/story/charac...

scoop flex! if you subscribe to my newsletter, you were the first to know that the model personality picker was coming :)

OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know www.wired.com/story/openai...

SCOOP from me: FEMA is planning to order states to immediately stop activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism - the latest in a broad federal move to downplay the threat:

OpenAI is partnering with the US government to make its leading frontier models available to federal employees for $1 for the next year. It’s the culmination of months of effort on the part of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives.

New from me in this week's Inner Loop, Epstein 'Great Expectations' edition: “Honestly, like, fuck Trump,” a Trumpworld source who works in conservative media tells me. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there’s obviously something nefarious that went on.” www.wired.com/story/trumpw...

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When the machines eventually rise to kill us it will be because they're sick of the secondhand embarrassment

Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.

The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company. www.wired.com/story/openai...

I’ve been highly anticipating this funeral edition of Kylie’s newsletter. Go check it out!!

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For my latest Model Behavior, I went to a funeral for an AI model. RIP Claude 3 Sonnet (2024-2025) www.wired.com/story/claude...

OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

The AI unicorns are FIGHTING and @kylierobison.com has the exclusive:

NEW: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models this week, after claiming that the company violated its terms of service. The AI wars continue! Scoop from @kylierobison.com www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Messy messy messy www.wired.com/story/anthro... via @kylierobison.com

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's (Kylie Robison/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Scoop: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

We included a survey for MB subscribers and I just got done reading all the notes. Sob! Cry! Ah!!! Thank you to everyone for the kind notes, the feedback on what they want to see from me, and more. This was the most chilling reply: "Keep writing until AI destroys the world."

OpenAI launches study mode in ChatGPT, designed to encourage students to engage with learning material, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users (Reece Rogers/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B+ over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink