1. Introducing Aardvark: OpenAI’s agentic security researcher
Aardvark is an autonomous AI agent built on GPT-5 that continuously scans codebases, constructs threat models, validates exploitability in sandboxed environments, and generates targeted patches via Codex—empowering security teams to discover and fix vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale (openai.com).
“Aardvark represents a breakthrough in AI and security research: an autonomous agent that can help developers and security teams discover and fix security vulnerabilities at scale.” (openai.com)
2. What Gödel’s incompleteness theorems say about AI morality
Elad Uzan argues that Gödel’s theorems impose a structural ceiling on formal moral reasoning: any AI system built on fixed axioms must either be inconsistent or leave true ethical propositions unprovable, ensuring that “perfect” machine ethics will always harbor blind spots (aeon.co).
“But Gödel’s work shows that this is impossible: no AI, no matter how sophisticated, could prove all moral truths it can express.” (aeon.co)
3. Apple at 50: Half a Century of Innovation, Design, and Global Influence
As Apple approaches its 50th anniversary, Vishnu Kaimal traces the company’s transformation from a garage startup to a cultural icon—examining how its unwavering commitment to simplicity, materiality, and human-centered design has repeatedly reshaped industries and set new benchmarks for technology (americanbazaaronline.com).
“Celebrating half a century is not just about nostalgia—it’s a chance to reflect on how Apple has reshaped entire industries and influenced global technology trends.” (americanbazaaronline.com)
4. Mapping, modeling, and understanding nature with AI
DeepMind’s Ecosystem Modeling team unveils AI tools that predict deforestation risk at sub-kilometer resolution, generate species-range maps via graph neural networks, and classify animal sounds with Perch 2.0—offering an integrated suite to monitor and protect Earth’s biosphere (deepmind.google).
“AI models can help map species, protect forests and listen to birds around the world.” (deepmind.google)
5. A Visual Diary of This Year’s WIRED25 Festival
Dina Litovsky’s vibrant photo essay roams WIRED25’s halls, capturing climate-change litigants meeting Captain America, luminaries like N.K. Jemisin building worlds, and children gleefully caked in slime—revealing the playful, future-bent pulse of tech culture (wired.com).
“Saturday’s slime workshop proved popular with the younger set… but not so much with the TSA agents who found this goo in carry-ons afterwards.” (wired.com)