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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’…
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Physical AI’s moment has arrived – but moving from demo to deployment is the hard part. AWS wants to fix that
Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. These systems not only generate content or analyze data but also perceive, reason…
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XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle…
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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise…
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Thomson Reuters launches proprietary AI model for legal work
Global content powerhouse Thomson Reuters Corp. today launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, combining the company’s trove of legal knowledge with LLMs from…
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They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was…
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Sam Altman voices fears that control of AI could be centered in too few hands
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman is worried that artificial intelligence technology will end up being controlled by just a handful of companies or…
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Report: AI model hub Hugging Face exploring sale at $13B valuation
Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the artificial intelligence model repository at $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported today. The…
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Nobody knows who built AI coding model Ox Alpha or where the code goes
An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted…
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Why every AI agent needs an org chart
A chief information officer I was talking with recently said something that stuck with me: Permissions tell an agent what it’s allowed to do. They…
