Wired's Uncanny Valley podcast discusses an unexpected feature in Meta's Muse, opaque spending by the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men's tendency to overstate what they know about AI.
Startup Vinci4D, which came out of stealth in December, has built software that uses physics-driven AI to speed up hardware simulation. Orchestrating such simulations has typically required specialized skills and a lot of time.
German public IT provider Dataport says LLMoin, an AI assistant shared by seven federal states and 17 municipal clients, now has 100,000 users. Built with Hamburg as a reusable product with separate workspaces, it shows how German administrations pool their AI tools.
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon's head of devices described ambient AI devices that work in the background and anticipate what users need instead of waiting for commands. In that vision, apps become less necessary.
With the ChatGPT Atlas browser gone, OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's Chrome extension so the assistant can see the tabs a user already has open when Chrome is tagged in a conversation. It works from ChatGPT's web and desktop apps.
Anthropic has taken Code Review, its automated pull-request reviewer for Claude Code, out of research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, offering eligible enterprises up to $50,000 in free credits. Companies using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, a setup common among European firms, are excluded from the offer.