AI benchmarks are supposed to reveal what models can do, but Google DeepMind is now putting the tests behind a cryptographic wall to make sure the models have not seen the answers first. Google DeepMind said Thursday that it has piloted what it describes as the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model,…
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Two mirrors, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, are set to change how we understand the cosmos. The launch window for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to open. The telescope’s primary instrument is due to inform practically every area of astrophysics, but also tucked inside the telescope…
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was…
Every security team has a version of the same nightmare: an employee receives a message that looks and sounds exactly like it came from the boss — and then acts on it. No matter how much training a company provides, something eventually slips through the cracks, leaving the IT department scrambling. This underscores the importance…
Gaming leaks have been having a moment lately, most notably the weeks-long saga between Rockstar Games and hacker Cyberleek surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI. But another notable leak flying under the radar is footage from EA Motive’s long-dormant Iron Man game that has surfaced online. SEE ALSO: GTA 6 Netflix extended look: Everything that was revealed What…
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta, Georgia, was accused of searching for the license plate of a coworker dozens of times after an affair between the…
Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas. Microdramas are short, scripted series designed to be watched on phones. Episodes typically run just a few minutes, and often feature soap opera-style plots, dramatic twists, and cliffhangers designed to keep viewers…
Claude’s memory no longer stops at the chat window. Anthropic on Aug. 25 extended the same memory used in Claude Chat to Cowork, allowing information learned in one experience to carry into the other. Users can pause or erase Claude’s memory, edit individual memories and keep sensitive topics excluded. They cannot, however, keep memory active…
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