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The 42AI world model is the brainchild of a stealth-stage Israeli startup that has finally surfaced, $62.5 million in funding behind it and a promise that sounds lifted from science fiction: software that can predict what a person will do before they have decided. Its first playground is finance, where the system already runs, the […]

University of Florida researchers have spent months tracing the online networks that keep AI-generated nude images flooding the internet, and their conclusion is uncomfortable: the problem is not a handful of rogue apps. It is a community that teaches, supplies and protects itself. The new study maps the people, tools and tutorials behind AI-generated nude […]

Omen AI acquires Aquatic Labs for million, merging data center water sensors into one instrument. What it means for AI’s thirst.

A WIRED investigation exposes a network of nudify apps hidden behind innocent icons: 400-plus domains, tens of thousands of ads, and what has to change.

Xbox manager Brandon Stirrup admits AI in game development is already happening at Xbox. What he said, who else admits it, and why players are furious.

Nvidia credit support is the newest lifeline in the AI infrastructure boom: the chipmaker is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt financing for Nscale’s planned AI data center in West Virginia. The proposal, first reported by The Information and corroborated by Bloomberg, would put Nvidia’s investment-grade balance sheet behind the construction loans […]

The OpenAI funding round behind the company’s road to an IPO has reportedly shrunk from $30 billion to $20 billion, and the first close is expected to be smaller still. Two of the world’s leading financial outlets now say demand from large institutional investors has turned tepid, even as a group of investors from the […]

A federal judge has allowed the xAI data center lawsuit brought by the NAACP to move forward, rejecting an attempt by SpaceX-owned xAI to throw the case out before discovery. At issue is whether the company violated the Clean Air Act by installing and running at least 35 gas turbines at its Colossus data center […]

Apple’s new CEO John Ternus says Apple AI will be everywhere – but never shipped for AI’s sake. What that means for Siri, agents, and the rest of the industry.

Genie 4 is the new world model from Google DeepMind, announced on 27 October 2026 and opened only to trusted testers. It generates a photorealistic place you can walk through with a keyboard, rewrite mid-session with a typed sentence, and hear as it runs, because the sound is produced by the model along with the […]