A Barclays report from earlier this year forecast that artificial intelligence-powered robots and autonomous machines have the potential to grow into a trillion-dollar market by 2035. Anthropic has announced a new software standard that will allow artificial intelligence assistants such as Claude to work better with robots and science and manufacturing hardware. The AI startup is releasing its Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, under a research preview, so developers in the scientific, robotics and manufacturing fields can test how Claude interacts with the physical world and build in necessary safeguards before releasing it broadly. Essentially, MHS stores information for AI assistants to understand how a piece of hardware works, without having to refer to paper manuals or tacit knowledge that only resides with a few experts. For example, a factory robot arm vendor could specify in an MHS how AI can manipulate a heavy arm safely by limiting the speed or angles with which it moves. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

More than 100 companies across AI, tech, finance and other industries have put their names on an open letter calling for improvements to cybersecurity. The long list of participants includes Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and Perplexity. They go on to list actions that organizations, governments, the cybersecurity and tech industry, and AI businesses could take in order to cut off a potential explosion in attacks powered by artificial intelligence. The letter is titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense," but like in so many horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. It raises the alarm that "In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable."

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OpenAI Is Developing a'Persistent' AI Agent Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is "put to sleep." OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new "Persistent mode" setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product's code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex command line tool are made public by default, and new features tend to surface there before making their way to OpenAI's other agent products, such as the Codex desktop app and ChatGPT Work. Persistent mode has not been broadly rolled out or announced yet, but could be in the future.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Tired of Want me to... and If you like... teases at the end of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini responses? This prompt stops them in their tracks. Once upon a time, ChatGPT seemed to end every response with "Want me to " follow-up questions, suggesting there was just it could do to make its reply complete. Of course, taking ChatGPT up on its offer would inevitably lead to another "Want me to " pitch, making them feel like transparent ploys to extend ChatGPT conversations.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Plaud's first AI earbuds have arrived - what they can do Can these new wearables deliver on the long-anticipated promises of AI earbuds? The earbuds mark a more hands-free future for AI tools. AI wearables company Plaud, known for its AI notetaking devices, has entered the earbuds game. Also: Why I'm not buying'AI earbuds' until they have these 3 specific upgrades The company's new Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of AI-enabled earbuds, is available for preorder today at $250. Plaud also offers the clip-on NotePin and NotePin S, released in January, as well as the Note and Note Pro (a card-style recorder).

Nearly four years after the debut of ChatGPT, no company has managed to convince regular people to replace their smartphone with an AI gadget. Certainly, more than a few have tried (and failed miserably), but the phone remains the dominant way people interact with modern technology, including large language models. Now, a company called Plaud is trying to tackle that nutshell in a way that's different from the likes of Rabbit and Humane. If you're not familiar with Plaud, don't worry, you're not the only one. The company is perhaps best known known for the Plaud Note and Note Pro, a pair of devices you can magnetically attach to your phone to record in-person conversations to be later automatically transcribed and summarized for you.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it? OpenAI's agentic ChatGPT Work can sign in to your online accounts without any interaction on your part. Is that a privacy risk? ChatGPT can sign in to your website accounts without your input. The built-in browser uses cookies to store your login credentials.

The Download: inside OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US Plus: Meta will pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety case. The models responsible for last month's agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday. The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity test they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts' fears that AI models might take actions that defy human desires and expectations. OpenAI and independent researchers told that the misbehavior stemmed from events during training. But they acknowledged that "alignment" remains a gnarly problem, and some of the hack's root causes will take much longer to resolve. Here's the inside story on what went wrong--and what comes next .

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Max Tegmark still believes the AI industry isn't doing enough to protect us from the potential harms of its increasingly powerful models. The MIT professor is the founder of the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit aimed at reducing the global catastrophic risks posed by AI. In 2023, FLI's open letter urging AI companies to temporarily halt the development of systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4 garnered support from a number of high-profile signatories .