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Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes […]

Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds. Why […]

Grab is using AI agents to automate analytics workflows, cutting mechanical analyst work from 44% in February to 30% in June. Its approach combines agent autonomy, certified data, context management and human oversight, with self service analytics increasingly handling metric, data and SQL requests without analyst intervention. By Leela Kumili

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.

AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.

LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz hears your criticism loud and clear. That’s why he got his startup’s logo tattooed on his shoulder.

Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.

The framing that causes the most damage is treating this as a financing decision. It is not. Taking venture money is choosing a category of business: one that must attempt to become very large very quickly, and produce an exit that returns a fund. Everything else follows from that. What venture capital actually requires A venture fund needs a small number of investments to return the entire fund. That structure means a company growing steadily and profitably at twenty percent a year is a failure in a venture portfolio, even though it is an excellent business by any other measure. Once you take the money, that expectation becomes your operating constraint. Decisions that would be obviously correct for a durable business, such as slowing hiring to protect margin, become hard to defend. Questions that actually decide it Can this business plausibly become very large? Not "could it grow", but could it realistically reach a scale where a meaningful ownership stake is worth a large multiple of the money invested. Most good businesses cannot, and that is not a criticism of them. Does speed determine who wins here? In some markets the first company to reach scale takes most of the value, usually where network effects or heavy switching costs exist. In those markets, refusing capital while a competitor takes it is a decision to lose. In most markets this dynamic does not apply, and speed bought with dilution buys nothing durable. Do you want to run this for a decade and then sell it? Venture capital has an implicit ending. The fund needs liquidity. If you want to own a profitable business indefinitely, you want a fundamentally different structure and should say so before, not after. Is capital genuinely your constraint? Founders often raise to solve problems money does not solve. If you have not found product market fit, capital lets you be wrong more expensively and for longer. If distribution is unproven, funding scales an unproven motion. The honest tradeoff Venture backed

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn't name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. "Your Beauty item is confirmed!" an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: "Ordered: […]

Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity. After the deal closes, […]

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he'd used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he'd hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, "Do cool shit." I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What […]

Today, I’m talking with Lila Snyder, who is the CEO of Bose. You certainly know Bose — it’s one of the most famous brands in all of consumer tech. The company started 60 years ago selling speakers to consumers, and its focus on research and development has led it to be a leader in both […]