This week on, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men's tendency to lie about how much they know about AI. Turns out, Meta's AI agent Muse goes well beyond managing your calendar: it will also sext with you. This week on, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger are joined by WIRED reporter Reece Rogers to discuss how he put it to the test--and ended up getting more than he bargained for. Plus, why the largest pro-AI super PAC network is funneling millions into shadowy LLCs, how Apple's new HomeView underwhelmed us, and a study that found men tend to overestimate how much they actually know about AI. Write to us at [email protected] . I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me--and Meta Says That's Totally Fine Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link . We wanted to share with you that is a finalist for not one or two, but three Signal Awards. The judges pick who wins, but listeners also have a say with the listeners' choice vote. You can go to the links we included in the show notes and vote for us. We promise it takes just a minute and your vote goes a long way.

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Artemis III Scientist Shares What to Expect From NASA's Next Lunar Mission Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon's surface. "If you just want to take pictures, you do that with robots. With the Artemis missions, we're trying to use the humans to their best capability," says Artemis III scientist Barbara Cohen. For years, NASA hoped to bring humans back to the moon's surface, and Artemis III was going to be the mission to accomplish this feat. That will no longer be the case.

Dog that hunts invasive'sea vomit' honoured as animal of the year A working dog from the Scottish Highlands has been named animal of the year by a charity for hunting down an invasive marine creature called the carpet sea squirt. This organism, also nicknamed sea vomit, is particularly harmful to coastal wildlife and economies. Working at low tide with her owner, Dr Texa Sim, black labrador Sgiath has found hundreds of colonies of the sea squirt, which - if left uncontrolled - can smother and kill native species. Sgiath is thought to be the UK's first sea squirt-hunting dog. She's a natural says Dr Sim proudly.

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Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza's story The Blue Fighter was announced as the winner of the prestigious Caine prize for African writers on 6 October. Five days later, The Atlantic published an article by the author and journalist Vauhini Vara titled: "Yet Another Literary prize winner Seems to Be AI." Vara said that she had run the story through the AI-detection software Pangram, which itself uses AI, and it had deemed the story to be almost completely artificially generated.

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