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Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer,

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Protesters Say Uber and Lyft Are Still Failing Their Blind Passengers

Michelle Barlak, public relations manager for The Seeing Eye, which provides guide dogs for people with visual impairments, tells WIRED

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SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

SpaceX is seeking approval for changes to Starlink that the company says will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service. In an application

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I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

As I leave my house on an overcast Tuesday morning to walk the dog, I’m accosted by a neighbor who

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What Materials Are U-Shaped Brackets Made From?

U-Shaped Brackets Made From Brackets come in a variety of shapes and sizes and serve many different functions. Various types

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The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the

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You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when he does I pay attention. His day job is the CTO of

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Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

While the biometric-scanning Orb and the World network have their roots in crypto tokens, “crypto” wasn’t an oft-mentioned word during

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GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

NKOM’s decision to stop tracking jamming in Finnmark sets a dangerous precedent, says Melanie Garson, a professor focused on international

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Inside the Mind of an AI Girlfriend (or Boyfriend)

Last month, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of

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Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper

The Trump family’s new crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, is off to an inauspicious start after website crashes limited the

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Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step

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A Rubberized Cybertruck Is Plowing Through European Pedestrian Safety Rules

The Cybertruck’s hood would also need to flex, and there should be no protrusions to gain a good NCAP pedestrian

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The Hottest Startups in Zurich in 2024

Home to fine cheese, breathtaking scenery and footballing politics (FIFA HQ overlooks Lake Zurich), Switzerland’s largest city is also a

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The Hottest Startups in Lisbon in 2024

Two years ago, Jon Fath moved with his family to Portugal from the Netherlands with the sole purpose of launching

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This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It was September

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The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has

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X Is Back in Brazil

Today, after a month-long suspension, X is now live again in Brazil. The platform had been suspended since late August

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Ring’s New AI Search Tool Lets You Easily Scan Videos—With Mixed Results

Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of

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OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch

OpenAI first announced the option for people to build custom GPTs nearly a year ago. The company described GPTs as

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Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

A few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I

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Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History

If Amazon’s test of sharing price history through Rufus expands and survives, it could be a significant reason for users

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69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail

In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with

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How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying

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Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

But Salakhutdinov says that having a wealth of information about how users go about common and important tasks like shopping

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Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again

Peter Todd is standing on the upper floor of a dilapidated industrial building somewhere in Czechia, chuckling under his breath.

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The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

When investors poured $6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw

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FTX Customers Will Get Back Billions After Judge OKs Bankruptcy Plan

A US judge has cleared the way for billions of dollars to be refunded to former customers of bankrupt crypto

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Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

Ball adds that the speed at which brands wanted to act, without a real plan or understanding of the space,

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좋은 여성 파트타임 일자리는 무엇인가요?

좋은 여성 파트타임 여성의 파트타임 일자리는 추가 수입, 조금 더 많은 독립성, 가족과 개인적인 책임을 돌볼 수 있는 더 많은

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Europe Votes to Slap China-Made EVs With Tariffs—but Tesla Gets Off Easy

“I think you can envision this playing out pretty well for BYD, actually,” says Ilaria Mazzocco, a senior fellow at

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Bose Reinvented Itself Just in Time. Now Comes the Tricky Part

The company has always had premium prices, but in certain categories the products haven’t always matched the brand’s prestige: 2010s

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Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules

Europe’s most famous privacy activist, Max Schrems, landed another blow against Meta today after the EU’s top court ruled the

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Hurricane Helene Destroyed Roads. Here’s How to Rebuild—and Flood-Proof Them for Next Time

Typically, Muench says, the solution isn’t something too complicated: Just build infrastructure higher. But engineers can’t build roads and bridges

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Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China

Soon you could see Waymo self-driving tech in Hyundai cars. The autonomous driving tech developer Waymo said this week that

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Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

Meta just announced its own media-focused AI model, called Movie Gen, that can be used to generate realistic video and

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is

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Pavel Durov Defends Telegram’s Privacy Changes Amid User Unrest

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov today defended recent changes to his platform, amid concerns his arrest in France has made the

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Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The

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23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

Kteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already left the

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ما هي العوامل الرئيسية التي تحرك سوق العقود مقابل الفروقات في الإمارات العربية المتحدة؟

ما هي العوامل الرئيسية التي تحرك سوق العقود مقابل تعد تجارة الفوركس، وهي عملية المضاربة على تحركات الأسعار في العملات

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Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars

Losing traction while driving at high speed is generally very bad news. Scientists from the Toyota Research Institute and Stanford

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MetaVs New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers

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An OpenAI-Backed Nonprofit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s decade-in-the-making effort to understand how handing out free money affects recipients and the broader economy delivered

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Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which

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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

In response to the suits, defendants such as Meta, OpenAI, and Bloomberg have argued that their actions constitute fair use.

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Spotify, Stop Trying to Become a Social Media App

Spotify’s decision to introduce comment sections under podcasts should surprise no one. For years now, apps have been ripping off

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Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

The outages could result in “millions” being lost by organizations impacted who have had to halt their operations or stop

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We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

With high hopes of finding some hidden gems in our home cities and $100 (£77) each burning a hole in

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The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash

On Friday, when a CrowdStrike update caused millions of Microsoft systems to crash around the world, many businesses were faced

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Silicon Valley’s Soulless Plutocrats Flip for Donald Trump—to Save Their Billions

Andreessen talks about the proposal as if it were Putin himself invading Atherton, California, the elite zip code where he

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OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a ‘Mini’ Model

OpenAI today announced a cut-price “mini” model that it says will allow more companies and programs to tap into its

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The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able

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RealPage Has Been Accused of Price-Fixing Rents. Now It’s on the Offensive

Yardi Systems, another US property management company, is also facing a class action suit regarding antitrust violations for artificially inflating

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OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough

OpenAI has faced opprobrium in recent months from those who suggest it may be rushing too quickly and recklessly to

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Elon Musk Says He’s Moving X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas

Elon Musk said he is moving more of his business empire to Texas. Musk-run X and SpaceX will shift their

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Craig Wright Faces Perjury Investigation Over Claims He Created Bitcoin

A judge in the UK High Court has directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against computer scientist Craig Wright,

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The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel’s Military

That appears to still include the IDF. WIRED identified several Israeli government statements and documents published since 2022 that confirm

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Apple to Allow Rivals to Access ‘Tap and Go’ Technology

Apple will allow rival companies to operate wallet technology on its iPhones free-of-charge for a decade, European Union regulators said

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The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a

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OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion

This week, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of the health company Thrive Global, published

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Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage

When Tigran Gambaryan was first invited in February to meet with the Nigerian government in order to settle a dispute

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At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another Internet

Jessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit

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The EU Is Coming for X’s Paid Blue Checks

Paid-for blue checks on social media network X deceive users and are abused by malicious actors, the European Union said

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Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour

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How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta

Williams in her note explained that “‘Prayers for …’ any location where there is a war in process might be

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Amazon Ramps Up Security to Head Off Project Nimbus Protests

Amazon appeared to have significantly heightened security for its New York Amazon Web Services Summit on Wednesday, two weeks after

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AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

Khanmigo doesn’t answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has

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AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

The day is slowly turning into night, and the American special operators are growing concerned. They are deployed to a

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Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse

In early 2022, two Google policy staffers met with a trio of women victimized by a scam that resulted in

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The Words That Give Away Generative AI Text

Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of

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How Keir Starmer Can Fix the UK’s Tech Industry

One way for Labour to unlock capital is to leverage the power of pensions and allocate more of their funds

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After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned

In late February 2014, Daniel was at his computer trading bitcoin on Tokyo-based crypto exchange Mt. Gox. Suddenly, the website

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Epic Games Lashes Out at Apple Over App Store Rejection

Fortnite maker Epic Games publicly lashed out at Apple on Friday, after its latest proposal for a rival iOS App

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How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

“People make fun of me about the fridges,” said Tassos Stassopoulos. “I am fridge-obsessed.” As the founder and managing partner

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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs

Cultivated meat firm Upside Foods has cut its workforce as the industry continues to struggle with bans from legislators and

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YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash

A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness &

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Inside a16z’s Boot Camp for Crypto Startups

Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of

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Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers

As mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz has plenty of problems to reckon with. Her London borough is wrestling with entrenched

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Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

After major investor Volvo decided to decrease its stake and cut funding for Polestar early this year, the EV company

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The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift

SpaceX has adopted similar tactics in its battles against federal regulators. After the National Labor Relations Board in January accused

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Meta’s Pay-for-Privacy Model Is Illegal, Says EU

For the past eight months, Europeans uncomfortable with the way Meta tracks their data for personalized advertising have had another

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Rimac Verne Robotaxi: prices, availability, specs

The Rimac Group describes Verne, its new autonomous ride-hailing service, as its “next impossible thing.” First, founder Mate Rimac established his

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Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All

Some Fortune 500 companies have begun testing software that can spot a deepfake of a real person in a live

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French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

“Then on the other extreme, [the left-wing New Popular Front] have been so vocal about all the taxation measures they

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This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human

In late April a video ad for a new AI company went viral on X. A person stands before a

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Inside a Violent Gang’s Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree

She refused to give up her password, and was, according to the prosecutors’ description, so demoralized by the earlier hacking

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He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It

Illia Polosukhin doesn’t want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is

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Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating

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OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the

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Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel

Two activists disrupted the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to protest Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google’s

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Welcome to WIRED Travel | WIRED

Hello, and welcome to WIRED Travel, WIRED’s new destination for coverage of all things transportation, aviation, vacation, and more. Of

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The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes

In late March, a smoke shop in Dyersburg, Tennessee, announced the arrival of a new product in its store: a

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Microsoft Faces EU Charges Over ‘Abusive’ Bundling

Brussels has accused Microsoft of illegally abusing its dominance in the business-software market at the expense of smaller rivals, following

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Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store

Apple has become the first Big Tech company to be charged with breaking the European Union’s new digital markets rules,

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US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A

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As Google Targets AI Search Ads, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing

Disclosure of ads has been an issue on Copilot as well. Though Microsoft says it labels all ads, Marcus Pratt,

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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

“What we have here is something incredibly simple,” said Tianwei Wu, the study’s lead author. “We can reprogram it, changing

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AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

Google, too, has funneled money into its Anthropic AI developments, and its CEO, Sindar Pichai, warned of continuous cuts throughout

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Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

Clean energy firms are reaping the rewards of this emerging shift. Aira, a Swedish firm that carries out heat pump

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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

The Eiffel Tower is 330 meters tall, and the nearest pizza parlor is 1.3 miles from my house. These facts

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My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event

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Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

That concentration of power is uncomfortable for European governments. It makes European companies downstream customers of the future, importing the

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We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

When OpenAI announced GPT-4, its latest large language model, last March, it sent shockwaves through the tech world. It was

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Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

When users first found out about Adobe’s new terms of service (which were quietly updated in February), there was an

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OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges

Neither database mandates nor generally contains up-to-date versions of the records that UBI Charitable and OpenResearch had said they provided

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STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

More than 1,100 self-identified STEM students and young workers from more than 120 universities have signed a pledge to not

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Airbnb’s Olympics Push Could Help It Win Over Paris

Short-term rentals can function as a quick release valve for a city expecting an influx of visitors, increasing capacity for

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Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia

Before Orkut launched in January 2004, Büyükkökten warned the team that the platform he’d built it on could handle only

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No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

While companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others had been upfront about their efforts in AI, for years Apple had

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I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a

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Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s Big Payday

Under CEO Elon Musk, Tesla has been credited with revolutionizing the auto industry, jump-starting the electric revolution, and racking up

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Sellers Call Amazon’s Buy Box ‘Abusive.’ Now They’re Suing

The latest UK class action, brought by the retailers, seeks financial compensation for the company’s alleged historical practices. “The most

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OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT

ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s approach to building artificial intelligence came under fire this week from former employees who accuse the company

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The $50 Billion Musk Referendum

The pay package is just one in a series of measures that shareholders have already been asked to vote on

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Apple’s Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave

Giannandrea said that Apple had focused on reducing hallucinations in its models partly by using curated data. “We have put

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Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI

In the latest battle between AI and the media, major Danish newspapers and TV stations are threatening to sue OpenAI

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Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI

Apple is finally getting into the generative artificial intelligence game—with a little help from an unlikely partner in OpenAI. Apple

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AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children

Over 170 images and personal details of children from Brazil have been scraped by an open-source dataset without their knowledge

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The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched

From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for

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How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable

Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of politicians like John F. Kennedy

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Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Cleared in US Fraud Trial

The objective of the defense, says Zachary Terwilliger, a former US prosecutor and partner at the law firm Vinson &

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Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI

Meanwhile, in less visible ways, AI is already changing education, commerce, and the workplace. One friend recently told me about

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Roaring Kitty Is Playing With Fire

Gill did not face charges then, but this time could be different. The securities regulator for the state of Massachusetts

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An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job

More than 100,000 people have gone through micro1’s screenings with hopes of being added to its marketplace of engineers, and

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US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

Google, in public comments to the NTIA ahead of its report, said it expects “to see increased attempts to disrupt,

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The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a ‘Handheld Iron Dome’

Drones have changed war. Small, cheap, and deadly robots buzz in the skies high above the world’s battlefields, taking pictures

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Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

In his polarizing “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen listed a number of enemies to technological progress. Among

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Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work

Last week, an AI Overview search result from Google used one of my WIRED articles in an unexpected way that

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Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco

As anyone who so much as glanced at the internet in the past few weeks probably noticed, Google’s sweeping AI

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The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to

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Chatbots Are Entering Their Stone Age

For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work.

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The Daylight Tablet Returns Computing to Its Hippie Ideals

“Do you mind if I hug you?” asks Anjan Katta. This is not the usual way to wrap up a

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Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it

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Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up

When bizarre and misleading answers to search queries generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature went viral on social media

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WeWork Survived Bankruptcy. Now It Has to Make Coworking Pay Off

WeWork is set to become a smaller—and potentially rightsized—company. Following a final hearing on its bankruptcy plan Thursday morning, the

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The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies

The US is widely seen as the global leader in artificial intelligence, thanks to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.

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A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the

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AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

Last year, the team began experimenting with a tiny model that uses only a single layer of neurons. (Sophisticated LLMs

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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

“We ultimately got lucky that our parameters and time range was right. If either of those were wrong, we would

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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms

When Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to

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WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

On a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new in the fruit

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Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads

Last week Google introduced a radical shake-up of search that presents users with AI-generated answers to their queries. Now the

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Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go

The white colonial revival church with its high steeple adds an idyllic architectural touch to the affluent town of Huntington,

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What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court

It doesn’t matter whether a person’s actual voice is used in an imitation or not, Rothman says, only whether that

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Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System

On Wednesday morning, a small group of people huddled over their phones at the foot of the giant glass skyscraper

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US Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, Alleging Monopoly Abuse

In the second case, a class action brought in 2022 on behalf of Ticketmaster customers in the US, Live Nation

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Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing

When ChatGPT was released in November 2023, it could only be accessed through the cloud because the model behind it

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Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly

A jury in December found that Google broke US antitrust laws through deals and billing rules that gave an unfair

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Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

A majority of US TikTok creators don’t believe the platform will be banned within a year, and most haven’t seen

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The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’

AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors

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Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech

In 2020, Tesla even wrote in a filing to the US Federal Communications Commission that it would be implementing ultra-wideband

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We Stood on Both Sides of the New York–Dublin Portal and It Was Glorious

Amanda: I got to the Portal in Manhattan’s Flatiron District a little before 11 am New York time, and found

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Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they

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Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

Last week OpenAI revealed a new conversational interface for ChatGPT with an expressive, synthetic voice strikingly similar to that of

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I Make AI Models to Sell Real People Clothes

Last spring, the clothing brand Levi Strauss & Co. announced plans to introduce “customized AI-generated models” into its online shopping

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Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress

“It’s really radical,” Stanley told me of Maven, “We got rid of likes and follows. That’s like insanity.” Some early adopters

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Meta Faces Fresh Probe Over ‘Addictive’ Effect on Kids

The European Union has opened an investigation into Facebook and Instagram for the platforms’ potentially addictive effects on children, echoing

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It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

Folks, when dogs talk, we’re talking Biblical disruption. Do you think that future models will do worse on the law

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Twitter Is Finally Dead. It’s X All the Way Down

Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed

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OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of

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The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

This has done little to deter a growing list of other business moguls who have also expressed interest in acquiring

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Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch

It’s also completely plausible that the chicken will fly off the shelves. Even though it contains only 3 percent animal

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Tesla’s Controversial Factory Expansion Is Approved

The controversial expansion of Tesla’s only European Gigafactory was approved on Thursday, as the local council in the German municipality

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Deadspin’s New Owners Are Embracing Betting Content—but Not AI

Deadspin’s new ownership comes at a time when sports media is increasingly entwined with sports betting. Most major outlets, including

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Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots

The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.

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OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

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As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t

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Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been sentenced to four months in prison. Judge Richard

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