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Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a “super IC”—an individual contributor. He stood to shake my hand, and I awkwardly thanked him for letting me vibe-code. Simon returned to his laptop, where he was monitoring an AI as it coded for him. Later, he would tell me that using AI coding apps was like managing a bunch of interns.Since 2022, the Notion app has had an AI assistant to help users draft their notes. Now the company…

(Shutterstock AI Generator) Space travel has always rewarded improvisation. Astronauts often rely on quick and practical fixes with whatever is on board. A strap becomes a sling. A checklist gets rewritten on the fly. Now there is a new partner on board.  NASA and Google are testing an AI medical assistant called the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA), built to help astronauts handle medical problems when a doctor is not on the spacecraft and talking to Earth takes too long. It is meant to be a calm and informed guide that understands spaceflight medicine and can walk a crew…

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk.Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-source AI model; according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, engineers designed it to meet the requirements of manned space missions, and focused its knowledge-base on aerospace flight…

(Pla2na/Shutterstock) The Trump administration has put a price on access to China’s AI market. Nvidia can now continue shipping select AI chips to Chinese customers as long as it observes performance caps and returns 15% of those sales to the U.S. The decision replaces blanket bans with conditional permission, opening a narrow lane back into a market that makes up more than a tenth of Nvidia’s revenue. That shift rewires incentives on both sides. Nvidia gets access to the huge market, but it must weigh margin pressure against the risk of ceding ground. The Chinese buyers face ceilings that set…

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school.WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, and we’re excited to talk about it at our next subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT / 6 pm UK. Join us for an exclusive look into these stories with WIRED’s features director, Reyhan…

(Yossakorn Kaewwannarat/Shutterstock) The push to scale AI across the enterprise is running into an old but familiar problem: governance. As organizations experiment with increasingly complex model pipelines, the risks tied to oversight gaps are starting to surface more clearly. AI projects are moving fast, but the infrastructure for managing them is lagging behind. That imbalance is creating a growing tension between the need to innovate and the need to stay compliant, ethical, and secure. One of the most striking findings is how deeply governance is now intertwined with data. According to new research, 57% of professionals report that regulatory and…

The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company, according to a press release the company published on Friday.The investment will be funded by $5.7 billion in grants Intel was awarded under the 2022 CHIPS Act and $3.2 billion the company was awarded as part of the Secure Enclave program, the press release says.The news comes shortly after President Trump touted the deal in a White House press conference with reporters. “I said, ‘I think you should pay us 10 percent of your company.’ And they said yes—that’s about…

(JarTee/Shutterstock) The initial euphoria surrounding generative AI is officially over. It has been replaced by a simmering, and in many cases boiling, frustration from the very users these platforms are meant to serve. The recent rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 is a case study in this growing chasm between the ambitions of AI developers and the realities of their customers. For IT leaders and buyers, this isn’t just tech drama; it’s a flashing red warning light about the stability, reliability and long-term viability of the AI tools being integrated into critical business workflows. The Botched ChatGPT-5 Launch and Resulting User Revolt…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect.Another surprise that has long perplexed researchers is those algorithms’ knack for their own, strange kind of creativity.Diffusion models, the backbone of image-generating tools…

(Source: Shutterstock) Several developments around Beijing-based startup DeepSeek and its ripple effects on global AI competition surrounded the AI in China front this week. The headlines ranged from a hardware-driven delay of the firm’s next large model to a new release tuned for domestic chips. In the U.S., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman credited Chinese open-source pressure for prompting his company to adjust its own strategy on model transparency. R2 Launch Postponed Amid Huawei Chip Push DeepSeek’s follow-up to January’s R1, known internally as R2, was expected to debut earlier this summer. Instead, the rollout has been put on hold after…