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A WIRED reporter used the Gemini platform and its Notebook/Gem features to build AI-driven 'clones' of editors at Condé Nast to simulate their preferences and feedback. The experiment produced plausible but imperfect personas, raised questions about usefulness and authenticity, and highlighted how workplace AI can change collaboration and privacy trade-offs.
The Austrian Academy of Science, with French AI lab Mistral and Sail Reply, has released Apollo, a large language model trained on roughly 600 million historical Ancient Greek words from manuscripts, papyri, and inscriptions; it will be offered free to academics via a chatbot to help identify relevant fragments and suggest plausible restorations of damaged texts. The model proposes multiple word options for scholars to choose from to avoid automatic alterations of the historical record.
WIRED will stage a one-day "World Fair" in Miami on November 4 at the Sacred Space in Wynwood, bringing together speakers and exhibits across biotechnology, politics, artificial intelligence, robotics and immersive art. Confirmed highlights include a talk from Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on AI, Refik Anadol’s Large Nature Model (an open-access generative AI model for nature), Unitree’s G1 humanoid roaming the venue, NASA XOSS astronaut training experiences, and performances/installations by Marina Abramović and others.
On Sept. 10 the NYC Democratic Socialists of America’s Tech Action Working Group posted an Instagram carousel rejecting what it called "AI alarmism," two days after ex‑Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned the industry could threaten humanity. The episode highlights a growing divide on the U.S. left between those prioritizing regulation of current AI harms and those, including Bernie Sanders supporters, who emphasize frontier AI risks and existential threats.
WIRED reporter Will Knight built 'PitchFly', a toy project that feeds popular WIRED headlines into an open‑sourced drosophila (fruit‑fly) connectome—a 166k‑neuron map developed by researchers at Google and partner institutions—to generate novel story pitches. The connectome’s public release has spurred dozens of hobbyist and research experiments (from games to trading bots), illustrating how accessible biologically‑inspired neural simulations have become.
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