AI giant Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei have repeatedly claimed that the company’s models will revolutionize biology and drug discovery. But in its IPO filing Monday, Anthropic struck a humbler note, acknowledging its lack of experience in physical experimentation and the potential pitfalls of drug development. Wherever it’s going, it seems, it will take some
Re:Build, the Massachusetts-based manufacturing accelerator that spun out EV startup Slate Auto in 2023, has raised $2.1 billion The company said Tuesday that it will use the funding to “expand Re:Build’s capacity to manufacture hard tech products and launch new industrial startups,” which will “ensure the most innovative products can be made in America for
For the past week, software engineers around the globe have been scrambling to update the backend of websites after a team using an OpenAI model discovered two major vulnerabilities in PHP, a critical piece of web software. PHP, open-source scripting software that underpins as many as 70% of websites worldwide, can become outdated when website
In Marvel’s VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial
A UK government watchdog is considering an investigation into the Home Office’s use of generative AI tools to process asylum applications, WIRED has learned. The potential probe follows lawmakers and researchers publicly questioning the tools’ accuracy and the government’s secrecy around their use. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI), which monitors the
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has confirmed that hackers are now actively exploiting a pair of critical security vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP web software and has ordered civilian federal agencies within the U.S. government to fix their systems within the next three days. The urgent new warning to patch comes less than a week
