“If you break it down, there are a lot of moving components in the backend that people are not necessarily cognizant of,” says Anurag Arjun, cofounder of crypto infrastructure startup Avail and Polygon, a crypto network built to rapidly process large numbers of transactions. Until late 2023, when the first inklings of the memecoin frenzy were […]
USPS Resumes Accepting Packages From China After Unexpected Suspension
The United States Postal Service abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China on Tuesday, according to an international service disruption notice posted on the USPS website. The move came after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports, including coal and liquified natural gas, in response to President Trump’s executive order to increase […]
Trump’s Plan to Make European Cars More Expensive Has a Fatal Flaw
President Trump wants Americans to buy fewer European cars and Europeans to buy more American cars. To speed his pipe dream along, on Sunday night he said that new tariffs on EU companies would “definitely happen.” (The ones on Mexico and Canada have been stayed for now.) His threat of 25 percent tariffs on, among […]
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),” Alex Polyakov, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI, told WIRED in an email. Cisco’s […]
OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek
OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open source offering from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. WIRED previously reported that OpenAI was prepping the new model, called o3-mini, for release on January 31. […]
Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It
Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have an edge on US rivals in terms of math and reasoning, it also aggressively censors its own replies. Ask DeepSeek R1 about Taiwan […]
DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up
It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not only did employees claim to see hints that DeepSeek had “inappropriately distilled” OpenAI’s models to create its own, […]
Washington DC Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far
Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided and plunged into the Potomac River in Washington DC late Wednesday, the first major US air crash in 16 years. From the little that’s known, human error likely played a role, raising questions about a chronic shortage of air traffic […]
Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of […]
DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors
The true price of developing DeepSeek’s new models remains unknown, however, since one figure quoted in a single research paper may not capture the full picture of its costs. “I don’t believe it’s $6 million, but even if it’s $60 million, it’s a game changer,” says Umesh Padval, managing director of Thomvest Ventures, a company […]