Month: June 2025

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to ...

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu ...

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had hired influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and ...

38 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals On Products We’ve Tested (2025)

Amazon Prime Day 2025 is fast approaching, and the sale is already underway on some items. To help you find the best early Prime ...

Week in Review:  Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week — Travis Kalanick is possibly returning to the world of self-driving ...

Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Previously known ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents ...

6 Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2025), Tested and Reviewed

The Quality of Service feature lets you prioritize activities like gaming or streaming, or set priority devices. Importantly, you can split the 2.4-GHz and ...

Cloudflare Launches Containers in Public Beta

Cloudflare has announced the public beta of its new container service, enabling developers to run containers on its global network. The service allows users ...

The next wave of model improvements will be due to data quality — LessWrong

When talking about why the models improve, people frequently focus on algorithmic improvements and on hardware improvements. This leaves out improvements in data quality. ...