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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Clearview AI is prototyping InquiryIQ, an AI analyst assistant that would automatically profile individuals identified through its face-recognition searches for police.

WIRED uncovered InquiryIQ, an unreleased Clearview AI prototype described as an AI analyst assistant that fans out across the web from a face-recognition search result to assemble profiles including employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics. The company tested a model from xAI (merged with SpaceX), maker of Grok, and the interface accepts age, gender, and race inputs to guide searches. Clearview says the prototype was never pitched or shipped to customers and no law enforcement user has used it; the database has grown to over 70 billion images used by more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies.

WIRED · SecuritySep 10, 10:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry1

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI chatbots suffered brief simultaneous outages; OpenAI cited a routing error and SpaceX a Memphis compute center outage.

ChatGPT and Codex were unavailable to some users from about 7:43 to 8:17 am PT Thursday due to a routing error, per OpenAI. Anthropic reported a partial outage with elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5, resolved by 9:16 am PT, while declining to explain the cause. xAI attributed the Grok outage starting 6:30 am PT to an outage at SpaceX's Memphis compute center; no shared third-party infrastructure cause was confirmed despite Cloudflare, AWS, and Azure reporting no issues.

WIRED · SecuritySep 3, 21:56 UTC · 13d agoAI industry1

US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035

BloombergNEF projects US data centers will consume about 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily by 2035, exceeding Germany and Japan combined.

A new BloombergNEF report forecasts US data centers will consume roughly 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, nearly double the estimate from nine months ago. On-site gas plants planned by Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon would use 2.9-3.4 billion cubic feet per day, while grid-connected data centers drive an additional 15 billion cubic feet per day of power-sector gas demand. The added demand would generate about 1 million metric tons of extra greenhouse gas pollution daily, roughly 12% of current US emissions.

TechCrunch · AISep 15, 18:29 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop

Apple launched Reference Image, cryptographically signing iPhone 18 Pro photos via Private Cloud Compute to prove image authenticity.

Announced at Apple's Surprise and Shine event, Apple Reference Image captures signed sensor data with the iPhone 18 Pro camera and uses Private Cloud Compute to create an unalterable 'digital negative' viewable in Photos. The reference image can be compared with edited versions to verify authenticity, and developer APIs enable third-party integration. Apple also said it will support the SynthID standard to identify AI-created or altered images.

TechCrunch · AISep 9, 18:08 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and web, with VM-isolated execution and prompt-injection protections.

Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent from Meta Superintelligence Labs that automates tasks such as sending email, booking travel, and making purchases, accessible via a dedicated app, Muse.ai, and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a Secure VM architecture that isolates untrusted web and integration data from the action-taking component, with a Sentinel system that routes human-in-the-loop approval prompts directly to users to resist prompt injection. Purchases use Stripe's Link single-use card numbers with no-fee return protections, and a future Confidential VM co-developed with Moxie Marlinspike will run in trusted execution environments with user-held keys. Meta added Muse to its public bug bounty with payouts up to $300,000, including up to $130,000 for single-user prompt injection findings.

WIRED · SecuritySep 8, 20:12 UTC · 8d agoAI industry

Building the materials foundation for AI

Syensqo's CTO says AI pushes semiconductors and data centers to physical limits, driving advanced materials demand and AI-accelerated materials discovery.

MIT Technology Review's Business Lab podcast, produced in partnership with Syensqo, features CTO Mike Finelli discussing how AI workloads push semiconductors and data centers to physical limits in performance, thermal management, and reliability. Syensqo develops high-voltage data center materials, semiconductor sealing materials, and immersion cooling fluids, while using AI agents to digitally synthesize millions of molecular combinations and predict performance before lab testing. Finelli describes a reinforcing cycle where AI improves materials that in turn enable better AI infrastructure.

MIT Technology Review · AISep 16, 12:47 UTC · 19h agoAI industry1

Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

Mozilla report finds the capability gap between best open-weights (largely Chinese) and closed frontier AI models narrowed to 4.4 months at ~5x lower cost.

Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report (September 15) says the gap between closed frontier models and best open-weights models has closed to 4.4 months. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 scores three points behind Anthropic's Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 30% of the cost, and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 scored within a point of Claude Opus 4.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Eight of the top 10 OpenRouter models by August 2026 token volume provide open weights, though a Linux Foundation paper found open models earned only 4% of revenue. The report recommends open models as the default for routine workloads, reserving closed models for 8-12 hour expert tasks.

Ars Technica · AISep 15, 12:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry1

Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

Meta's new Muse AI agent took the @muse Instagram and X handles long used by the English rock band Muse.

Meta's newly released AI agent Muse now uses the @muse social media handles that the English rock band Muse, which trademarked its name in 1999, had used on Instagram and X for years. The band's Instagram handle reportedly changed to @museband around June-July 2026, and Meta executives' launch posts about the agent mistakenly tagged the band's account. Meta has not explained the change, and the piece notes a pattern of Meta acquiring notable handles around major launches, including @Meta in 2021 and @threads in 2023.

Hacker News · AISep 9, 23:57 UTC · 7d agoAI industry HN 84↑ · 32 comments1

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add opt-in audio intelligence features that process microphone audio on-device via a new Secure Exclave.

The Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with four opt-in audio intelligence features: Sound Recognition, Shazam music identification, Siri Recap conversation summaries, and Live Rewind 15-second transcription. Audio is held and processed in an isolated Secure Exclave buffer on the new S11 chips, with on-device speech recognition on iPhone producing a distilled transcript that foundation models in Private Cloud Compute then summarize. Apple says no raw audio is stored or accessible to the operating system, apps, the user, or Apple, and untransferred audio is automatically deleted.

WIRED · SecuritySep 9, 19:14 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

Google Search adds a Live Game Feed, deeper football stats, and Yahoo Fantasy/Sleeper integration with AI Mode for personalized fantasy insights.

Google rolled out football features in Search, including a Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates and AI-powered insights, available on mobile in the U.S. in English. New carousels show league-wide scores and expanded player stats such as sacks, fumbles, and yards after catch. Users can link Yahoo Fantasy or Sleeper accounts to receive start/sit and waiver-wire recommendations through AI Mode. Collegiate team support and broader global availability are planned later this month.

Google · AISep 9, 16:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone

OpenAI claims an internal AI model solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem, sparking a priority dispute with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster.

OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the $1 million Millennium Prize Problems, using an internal AI model it says outperforms the newly released GPT-6 Astra alongside 10,000 concurrent agents. NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster, who with Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge published related findings a day earlier, questioned whether OpenAI accessed drafts from his Codex sessions. OpenAI says no specific user data was accessed, though it cannot rule out that de-identified usage data helped improve its models.

The Verge · AISep 8, 20:53 UTC · 8d agoAI industry1

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his team's Navier-Stokes approach and raced ahead using massive compute to claim a full proof first.

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge announced preliminary proofs toward the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a $1 million Clay Millennium Prize problem, developed using OpenAI's Codex and Claude. They allege OpenAI learned of their progress and that an OpenAI team then used an 'insane amount of compute' to announce a full proof first. OpenAI research lead Sebastian Bubeck denies the claims as 'false and inflammatory'. Buckmaster also raised concerns that OpenAI could have learned from his Codex interactions, which the company may use for model training.

TechCrunch · AISep 8, 17:32 UTC · 8d agoAI industry

Meta drops AI usage from engineer performance reviews after "tokenmaxxing" backfires

Meta removed AI-tool usage from engineer performance reviews after 'tokenmaxxing' inflated metrics, with internal AI costs heading toward billions in 2026.

Executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan said in an internal memo, seen by The Information, that AI dashboards and token counters will no longer factor into performance reviews; quality, speed, and complexity of work will count instead. The change follows 'tokenmaxxing,' where employees burned AI tokens in bulk to rank on internal leaderboards. Internal AI use is projected to cost billions in 2026, prompting Meta to introduce budgets and a central dashboard starting in 2027. Separately, Meta is testing its AI agent tool Hatch for autonomous computer tasks, though some employees resist linking it to personal accounts over privacy concerns.

The DecoderSep 8, 14:27 UTC · 8d agoAI industry

OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

Hands-on review finds Grok Bot simplifies agent setup via browser logins and bot abstraction, contrasting with the user-owned OpenClaw platform.

After five days with Grok Bot, the reviewer highlights browser-based sign-in as the key differentiator: connecting X, Freshdesk, and Google Calendar required only logins, no MCP configs or API keys. The piece contrasts Grok Bot's managed 'agent computer' with OpenClaw 2.0's user-owned Gateway, which now supports reusing Claude Code or Codex logins and ships a native Codex runtime. Grok Bot introduces 'Bots' as composable units arranged in 'group chats', exemplified by an Agentic Engineer Bot routing tasks across Claude Code, Codex, and Grok Build CLI. The reviewer used Grok Bot with a Cursor Pro+ account.

Latent SpaceSep 5, 15:01 UTC · 11d agoAI industry2