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A line has been crossed in AI warfare.

A Russian drone fitted with an Nvidia chip and guided entirely by AI killed three Ukrainian civilians in July, according to the New York Times. Though AI is already a standard feature of modern warfare, with both sides of this conflict having experimented with battlefield automation, it could mark the first time AI both guided a drone and selected a target.

It’s AI Tom Cruise all over again.

Alibaba’s Wan3.0 AI video model is now generally available, which the company says is capable of generating 30 second clips based on text, image, video, and audio inputs — including web pages, PDFs, and slide decks. This might be yet another AI model with copyright concerns given its promotion of at least one video featuring Tom Cruise.

Even Sam Altman does not yearn for automation.

One of the most interesting parts of the OpenAI chief’s appearance on David Senra’s podcast is him trying to explain why he avoids the company’s digital assistant Codex for work as if it’s a kind of personal failing. “It makes no sense,” he said. Altman admitted “I don’t really know” when asked what it would take for him to adopt Codex more deeply.

How you should use AI in your job hunt, according to recruiters and career coaches

HR pros say job seekers don't need to hide their AI usage, as long as they can back up the claims they make.

The CEO of the unicorn AI accounting startup, Rillet, says AI is changing who consulting firms hire

Rillet, the AI-powered accounting unicorn, is riding the AI boom and the accountant shortage. CEO Nicolas Kopp says it could change consulting, too.

A struggling Brooklyn bakery was months from closing. Then a Meta engineer made it go viral.

Shuayb Qureshi, a software engineer at Meta, said he lost a lot of his "social flow." Now the 31-year-old Manhattan resident is getting it back.

Why 2026's tech IPO market is shaping up to be another dud

Two mega-IPOs are making 2026 look like a banner year for tech listings. Strip them out, and the IPO market is shaping up to be another dud.

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

The Chinese internet is looking to the country's weirdest viral movie for hints at Ox Alpha's origins

Some people on the Chinese internet think the model's name is a dead giveaway about its origins.

The Internet of Slop

The open web is rife with AI-generated text, according to new data from Pew Research. Older English-language webpages show fewer signs of AI authorship, but over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released on November 22nd, 2022, “were likely written or substantially edited by AI.”

Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs

HONG KONG — Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.

Meta hires OpenAI veteran Luke Metz

Metz rejoined OpenAI earlier this year after a stint at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Labs.