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Lauren Goode

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Lauren Goode

    Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI (opens the original)

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    Going rogue. Breaking containment. Misalignment. P(doom). As the industry booms, an entirely new vernacular has emerged in the debates over how consequential artificial intelligence really is. Within that new parlance, two phrases have become focal points: stochastic parrots and existential risk. And at the center of those is one prominent AI researcher who has never stood down from a fight, Timnit Gebru. Gebru came into the public eye several years ago after sparring with Google over a research

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Lauren Goode

    Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System (opens the original)

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    Amidst ongoing reports of AI agents wreaking havoc on online infrastructure, chipmaker Nvidia is rallying tech companies to use its new open-source tool for AI security. Over the last few months, frontier AI labs have disclosed multiple incidents in which AI agents have hacked into other companies or, in more recent examples, probed official US and Australian government websites. While Nvidia has already taken a leading role in rallying the AI industry around open source security, it’s now int

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Lauren Goode

    One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ (opens the original)

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    Here at WIRED we’ve been trying to make sense of at least two incidents in the AI industry this week: First, the major fight over a million-dollar math problem and whether OpenAI surreptitiously borrowed the work of other researchers to solve the problem first. A day later, an Anthropic researcher—who had previously worked at OpenAI—very publicly quit his job, citing concerns about how both companies were handling AI safety. Another technical staffer at Anthropic said in response that peop

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Lauren Goode

    A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage (opens the original)

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    An ambitious chip startup that has spent more than seven years quietly trying to redesign the architecture for computer memory has just come out of stealth mode and believes its new approach can help ease the global memory-chip shortage—provided it can produce its technology at scale. Kepler Computing, a San Jose, California–based startup founded in 2018 by a team of physicists and computer scientists, says it has developed a new architecture for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that directly address

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Lauren Goode

    Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI (opens the original)

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    Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, which makes online developer tools and maintains a massive library of open-source data sets, for nearly $13 billion. While the deal had been rumored for weeks, the companies made it official Thursday morning. The deal signals Nvidia’s seriousness about being steeped in the software side of generative AI development as well as in infrastructure. Nvidia already offers customers a suite of free, customizable open-weights AI models, known as Nemotron. As

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