The language Go hails from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions. My generation of strivers has a lot to learn....
In an attempt to defend itself against a ban in the US, TikTok has pointed out that other Chinese companies could be collecting as much data as it does....
Calling for Apple to break its silence on the ongoing war in Gaza and to rid so-called blood minerals from its supply chain, protesters stood outside over a dozen Apple Stores around the world Friday....
AI has scrambled our ability to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic. But there are tools and techniques to help stay grounded in truth....
Paul Graham’s viral essay explains why Brian Chesky and Steve Jobs ruled and professional managers stink. But if a manager is smart and the founder is meh, who’s better?...
The TikTok owner’s newest board member revels in challenging the establishment....
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....
Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US....
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....
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI....
The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield....
SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse....
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....
A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up....
If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram....
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....
Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action....
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry....
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....
The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI-o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance....
A US judge has overturned a moratorium that stopped gambling companies from letting people bet on election results....
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....
To compete against thousands of crypto meme coins flooding the market, creators are resorting to elaborate and sometimes dangerous stunts for attention....
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....
A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences....
Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice....
A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”...
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....
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....
Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate....