Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok
The TikTok owner’s newest board member revels in challenging the establishment....
20 setembro, 2024
Big Tech’s New Adversaries in Europe
For the past five years, Big Tech has faced a flurry of new rules and reprimands from Brussels. Now with a new team taking over the European Commission, relations may be entering a new era....
20 setembro, 2024
Online Casino Workers Went on Hunger Strike Over Working Conditions
Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US....
19 setembro, 2024
Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules
A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them....
19 setembro, 2024
The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI....
19 setembro, 2024
Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield....
19 setembro, 2024
I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App
SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse....
18 setembro, 2024
An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts
Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model....
18 setembro, 2024
Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know
A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up....
18 setembro, 2024
OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models
If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram....
17 setembro, 2024
The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto With World Liberty Financial
After coming out in favor of crypto, the Trump family is launching a venture of its own. You'll just have to wait for the details....
17 setembro, 2024
OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum
Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action....
16 setembro, 2024
AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry....
14 setembro, 2024
The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder
Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it....
13 setembro, 2024
OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI-o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance....
12 setembro, 2024
Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US
A US judge has overturned a moratorium that stopped gambling companies from letting people bet on election results....
12 setembro, 2024
Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up
A new report attempts to calculate how much damage shipping our Amazon orders is doing to the planet, and how badly the company is missing its own targets....
12 setembro, 2024
People Are Setting Themselves on Fire and Getting Punched in the Face to Pump Their Crypto Coins
To compete against thousands of crypto meme coins flooding the market, creators are resorting to elaborate and sometimes dangerous stunts for attention....
12 setembro, 2024
After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry
Billionaire Mark Cuban is done with his hit TV show, but he’s still invested in fighting pharma’s middlemen, being a dad, and needling Elon Musk....
12 setembro, 2024
An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job
A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences....
11 setembro, 2024
This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours
Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice....
11 setembro, 2024
The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town
A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”...
11 setembro, 2024
Apple Must Pay $14.4 Billion to Ireland in Crackdown On ‘Sweetheart Deals’
The European Court of Justice has ordered Apple to pay billions in back taxes to Ireland, in a move that hands a victory to the European Commission against so-called ‘sweetheart deals’ between the country and big tech companies....
10 setembro, 2024
An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast
The YC-backed startup NetworkOcean plans to sink GPUs into San Francisco Bay. Multiple California regulators WIRED spoke with hadn’t heard about the test—and raised concerns about its potential environmental impact....
10 setembro, 2024
Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?
Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate....
10 setembro, 2024
This iPhone ‘Supercycle’ May Not Be So Super
Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone's buying the hype....
09 setembro, 2024
Google’s Next Antitrust Trial Could Make Online Ads Less Annoying
Google will be in court on Monday to face allegations of an ad tech monopoly. Experts say that a DOJ win could create a better browsing future....
09 setembro, 2024
What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
xAI's generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It's also scooping up a ton of data people post on X. Here's how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should....
09 setembro, 2024
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Polestar?
The all-electric sibling of Volvo has a new CEO, new models landing, and a new plant in South Carolina—but will this be enough to stop the EV brand's decline?...
07 setembro, 2024
The NSA Has a Podcast—Here’s How to Decode It
The spy agency that dared not speak its name is now the Joe Rogan of the SIGINT set. And the pod's actually worth a listen....
06 setembro, 2024
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