Webb Wright
Science Journalist at Freelance
Journalist covering tech and the mind. Seen in @sciam, @WIRED, @QuantaMagazine, @VICE, and elsewhere. Obsessed with words and music.
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1 week ago |
zdnet.com | Webb Wright
Getty Images/Fahmi Ruddin HidayatAI is listening -- now more than ever. Also: This free Google tool turns AI into your research assistantOpenAI announced in an X post on Thursday that users of ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Edu can now record audio by simply pressing a button. Record mode, the Otter.ai-like meeting transcription feature, was initially released through the ChatGPT MacOS desktop app earlier this month. Record mode is rolling out today in ChatGPT to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Webb Wright
16 hours agoSeveral weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, …
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1 week ago |
zdnet.com | Webb Wright
Getty Images/Eugene MymrinAI agents, as you've probably noticed, are suddenly everywhere. Leading tech companies have been releasing agentic AI tools in droves, motivated by investor pressure to show returns on enormous AI investments. Smaller businesses, meanwhile, seem to be embracing these tools with similar verve. Also: Anthropic now lets developers use Claude Code with any remote MCP serverNow, Gartner predicts that the role of AI agents within businesses will only become more pronounced.
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abcnews4.com | Webb Wright
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Almost two decades ago, an unthinkable tragedy happened when nine Charleston firefighters lost their lives fighting the Sofa Super Store fire. It was a tragedy that not only left the Lowcountry in shock but also changed the face of firefighter safety across the nation.
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zdnet.com | Webb Wright
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETGoogle is pushing forward rapidly with updates to Gemini 2.5, the latest addition to the company's family of AI models, which debuted earlier this year. On Tuesday, the tech giant announced that Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash -- both of which were originally released as limited public previews -- are now generally available and stable. That means they've been deemed reliably safe for public use, a win for users.
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