Business
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Can HVAC Services improve indoor air quality?
Indoor air quality plays a major role in maintaining a healthy and comfortable home environment. Many homeowners focus on temperature control but overlook how heating and cooling systems affect the […]
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강남 가라오케 시설 만족해요?
강남 가라오케 시설 강남 가라오케는 서울에서 음악을 즐기고 싶은 사람들에게 매우 인기 있는 장소로, 많은 방문객들이 “강남 가라오케 시설 만족해요?”라는 궁금증을 가지곤 합니다. 실제로 강남 가라오케는 최신 음향 장비와 쾌적한 […]
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강남호빠는 예약 없이 가능한가요?
강남호빠는 예약 없이 가 강남호빠는 예약 없이 방문해도 이용이 가능하지만, 인기 있는 시간대에는 좌석 확보가 어려울 수 있습니다. 특히 주말이나 연휴, 저녁 시간대에는 많은 방문객이 몰리기 때문에 예약 없이 방문하면 […]
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Can Social media scrapers scale with business growth?
Social media scrapers scale with business growth As digital ecosystems expand and online audiences multiply, businesses are constantly searching for smarter ways to gather insights from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, […]
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Can a Naperville Locksmith improve home security?
Naperville Locksmith improve home security Home security is a concern for many homeowners in Naperville, and a common question that arises is, “Can a Naperville Locksmith improve home security?” The […]
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오피사이트 장기 거주 추천 조건을 확인할 수 있나요?
오피사이트 장기 거주 오피사이트 장기 거주 추천 조건을 확인할 수 있나요? 이러한 질문은 단기 이용보다 장기 이용을 고려하는 사용자들이 특히 궁금해하는 부분이다. 새로운 공간에서 일정 기간 이상 머물러야 한다면 시설, […]
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레플리카 관련 법적 문제는 무엇인가요?
레플리카 관련 법적 문제는 레플리카 관련 법적 문제는 무엇인가요?라는 질문은 레플리카 제품에 관심 있는 소비자뿐 아니라 판매자에게도 매우 중요한 사안입니다. 레플리카는 정품을 모방한 제품으로, 가격이 저렴하고 디자인이 비슷하다는 장점이 있지만, […]
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OpenAI’s Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line
OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building […]
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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push
Microsoft and Nvidia have unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy, in a move that will bolster the building of more data centers as […]
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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
My evidence that we’re onto something is we’ve seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten the best deal by far is Reddit. We know from […]
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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
More than 200 contractors who worked on evaluating and improving Google’s AI products have been laid off without warning in at least two rounds of layoffs last month. The move […]
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Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World
Another TikTok video Degeling shared with WIRED showed a slow-motion, close-up angle of the bullet hitting Kirk’s neck. The tone of the video was conspiratorial: The user who uploaded it […]
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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to […]
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How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells […]
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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’
Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”
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The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model
The United Arab Emirates has released an open source model that performs advanced reasoning as well as the best offerings from both the United States and China—one of the strongest […]
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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon
Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists. He was placed on the “machine” team. […]
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The Unexpected Winners of Trump’s Trade War
But Shein and Temu didn’t stop marketing altogether. Instead, both companies chose to shift their ad budgets abroad to regions where the geopolitical risks were perceived to be lower and […]
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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules
If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The […]
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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But […]
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Where's the Fun in AI Gambling?
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down the role of AI in the online gambling scene.
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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a […]
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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing pending applications by another person for the same trademarks. Neuralink, […]
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Should AI Get Legal Rights?
In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar idea was once championed by none other than Putnam, though […]
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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements
While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the approaches used to LLMs also work for robots. “I think […]
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The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight
Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide more competitive interest rates in an effort to keep customer […]
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WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week’s biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta’s new superintelligence lab, to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers.
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Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents
Some up-and-comers are pushing to make agents that can actually place wagers instead of just supplying tips, but the field is off to a rough start. Tom Fleetham formerly worked […]
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Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), aims to help the […]
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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act
Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over App Store Rankings
Elon Musk’s xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, accusing the companies of behaving like monopolies and claiming Apple deprioritized ChatGPT rivals like Grok in the App […]
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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World
And that requires swallowing our pride here, right? Like we actually need to learn from China, even though US politicians don’t want to admit that. Yes. I think that we […]
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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,” while Twitter no longer does. And many Bluesky users reported […]
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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers
Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the story isn’t that simple: While younger workers are being […]
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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a stark warning. “There are definitely some groups that are using […]
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Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab
At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the initiative. Two of the staffers have returned […]
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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright […]
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Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole
We’re going to talk a little bit about that later. Now I hate to do this, but you did work at Pizza Hut in high school. I did. Nothing I […]
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WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza
On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk about the Trump administration’s deals with chipmakers, OpenAI’s potential $500 billion valuation—and ants.
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A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House
When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate that the tiny proto-nation—which had no permanent residents, barely any […]
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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to be at a turning point in how it thinks about […]
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Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?
The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under the Biden era CHIPS Act, according […]
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How to Become a Vibe Coder
Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: Yeah. But yeah, I’d be curious to see what you come up with. Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: In fact, I’m probably going to quiz […]
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Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That
The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in […]
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The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official
The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company, according to a press release the company published on Friday. […]
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Join Us for WIRED’s “Uncanny Valley” Live
On September 9, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley‘s first live show of the podcast. Join us in San Francisco to see hosts Katie Drummond, Michael Calore, and […]
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Kanye West Said Memecoins ‘Prey On Fans.’ Then He Apparently Launched One
Kanye West, the hip-hop artist who goes by Ye, appears to have launched his own cryptocurrency, YZY, sparking a riot of trading activity. In February, West rejected the idea that […]
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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a […]
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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?
During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers […]
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Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman […]
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OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company in the world—bigger than SpaceX, TikTok’s parent […]
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Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not
John Borthwick, CEO of the venture capital firm Betaworks, tells WIRED that he is skeptical about the feasibility and potential effectiveness of many Mamdani campaign proposals—like free buses, or a […]
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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor with Trump, you buy into one of these schemes, and […]
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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them
Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like essays or book excerpts, into ChatGPT and asks it to […]
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Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users
Is the new GPT-5 model as big of an upgrade as OpenAI claims? Why are users complaining? And what do the changes actually mean for ChatGPT users? WIRED reporters have […]
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A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Office of Management and Budget hosted […]
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Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity
Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth […]
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Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of the personal styling agent Alta, told WIRED the model appears […]
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Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley
This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?
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Inside the Biden Administration’s Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future
Then there were the specifics. How would the policy distinguish between equipment that really posed a risk, and products companies should still be able to sell? Estevez says he remembers […]
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Why Trump Flip-Flopped on Nvidia Selling H20 Chips to China
The tech industry is reeling from President Trump’s surprising new deal with Nvidia. Earlier this week, Trump said he would allow the company to continue selling its H20 chips to […]
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Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself
When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It’s a natural impulse—after all, if a […]
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GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence
Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in favor of a colder, more businesslike one (a move seemingly […]
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Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories
“AI is expensive. Let’s be honest about that,” Anand says. Growth vs. Safety In October 2024, the mother of a teen who died by suicide filed a wrongful death suit […]
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Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury
The Trump family began to tease the launch of World Liberty Financial last August, ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. Initially, it was unclear what services the business would […]
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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center […]
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OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent), SWE-Lancer (GPT-5-thinking scored 55 percent), and Aider Polyglot (scored 88 […]
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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can […]
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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a haven for criminals to engage in large-scale money laundering and […]
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Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable
The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them are quite sure what, exactly, that means. […]
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OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. […]
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I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website
A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website. The AI agents, developed […]
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Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit
The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep up, we get it. That’s why WIRED is hosting its […]
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A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet
How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? […]
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The Inside Story of Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin
“Going public is a game-changer,” Eric Trump said. “It unlocks capital and institutional access that will fuel our mission to build the largest, most investable platform for long-term Bitcoin accumulation.” […]
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Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Three days after the Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI action plan, the Chinese government put out its own AI policy blueprint. Was the timing a coincidence? I doubt it. […]
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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit
In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized. To look for a way […]
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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode
Louise Matsakis: I got to say, I think calling this a migration is maybe underselling it. This is an evacuation, no? I find this sad in a lot of ways […]
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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access to Claude
Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating […]
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Uber’s Drive to Become the Kleenex of Robotaxis
“To them, it doesn’t really matter who ultimately succeeds,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the self-driving-vehicle industry and is the vice president of marketing at Telemetry, a Michigan research […]
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Donald Trump’s New Crypto Bible Is Everything the Industry Ever Wanted
The White House has laid out its plan to usher in a “new American Golden Age,” with cryptocurrency at its center. In a 160-page report published Wednesday, White House representatives […]
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Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can learn from themselves without as much […]
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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption For Small Packages
US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an […]
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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several […]
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ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems
The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or at least, encourage against—students taking homework shortcuts. The mode is […]
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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
But perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence suggesting that ChatGPT regurgitated the language of Warhammer 40,000 is that it kept asking if The Atlantic was interested in PDFs. The […]
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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl
Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this […]
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It Looks Like the Tesla Model Y Refresh Has Bombed
Tesla did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment on this article. For Nagley, it’s too early to talk about Tesla failing to survive, “but the question is, can they […]
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The Great Crypto Re-Banking Has Begun
For crypto firms, the vibe shift is a blessing. Although they have comparatively few problems accessing overseas bank accounts—often in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland—in lieu of a US bank […]
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A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You
At WIRED, we’re obsessed with how the world is transforming—and lately, there’s been a lot to obsess over. From the breakneck pace of AI research to the tectonic transformation playing […]
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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe
The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors […]
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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias
On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they […]
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Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis
Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla is calling it […]
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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech
President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of […]
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Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves
But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular open-source alternative. GitHub’s Copilot, […]
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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China
I’ve been told by multiple people that the set of a short drama doesn’t necessarily look that different from an indie movie or commercial shoot, except everything is churned out […]
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Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation
On Wednesday, the Trump administration unveiled its new artificial intelligence action plan geared at keeping US efforts competitive with China. With over 90 policies recommended, it’s a wide-ranging document that, […]
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X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say
A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in a power system, according to an official […]
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OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round
OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The fundraising effort is part of a $40 billion round announced in […]
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Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All
Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing […]
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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs […]
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Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12 billion. […]
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룸알바에서 조심해야 할 점은?
룸알바에서 조심해야 룸알바에서 조심해야 할 점은? 이 질문은 룸알바를 처음 시작하려는 사람들이 반드시 짚고 넘어가야 할 중요한 주제입니다. 룸알바는 다른 아르바이트보다 수입이 높은 편이고, 비교적 짧은 시간 동안 일할 수 […]
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This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time
Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He feeds the […]
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Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars
WIRED contacted Huawei to ask about its potential role in the subsidies. Huawei did not comment in time for publication. One of the earliest subsidies appeared online in March, when […]
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Congress Passes GENIUS Act in Major Win for US Crypto Industry
“Competition will be fierce,” says Christian Catalini, founder at MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and co-creator of Diem, the now-defunct stablecoin project funded by Meta. “You will see many more issuers enter […]
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I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat
An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and it cost me $300. Elon Musk’s xAI dropped the new […]
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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent
A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could […]
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Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Wei worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, according to his […]
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Tech Billionaires Back Erebor in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
“What I imagine is going on here is that should this become a new chartered bank … the bank would be providing this ‘cash in, obfuscated crypto out’ type of […]
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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. The […]
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GM’s Final EV Battery Strategy Copies China’s Playbook: Super Cheap Cells
General Motors has just announced its latest and likely final piece in what now appears to be a three-pronged cell-chemistry strategy to power GM’s lineup of a dozen EVs through […]
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‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts
Edesia had to lay off 10 percent of its staff in March as USAID was dismantled; Salem says that it took “many, many, many weeks” for the company to receive […]
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What Makes a Car Lovable? It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Cup Holders
Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say the least. Want to know who […]
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Tornado Cash Made Crypto Anonymous. Now One of Its Creators Faces Trial
A large portion of the trial, legal experts say, will focus on whether Storm intended for Tornado Cash to be used for illicit means, whether he knew that it was […]
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5 Big EV Takeaways From Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
If you’re an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but. The legislation, signed by the president last weekend, cuts all […]
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Microsoft and OpenAI’s AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract
I first learned about The Clause from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During an interview with him in May 2023, I asked about the deal between Microsoft and OpenAI that granted […]
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Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles
What’s going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were initially filed back in 2023, with decisions just now starting […]
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Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO
Linda Yaccarino, who has served as CEO of X since Elon Musk appointed her to the role in June 2023, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down. Her departure comes […]
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You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst
Welcome to Uncanny Valley’s very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.
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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. Without citing detailed evidence, Musk claimed that the model […]
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A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible to control how training data is used even after a […]
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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Grok’s first reply has since been “deleted by the Post author,” but in subsequent posts the chatbot suggested that people “with surnames like Steinberg often pop up in radical left […]
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s Clothing Has Sparked a Polymarket Rebellion
Polymarket did not respond to a request for comment. Launched in 2020, Polymarket rose to prominence last year as a way for people to bet on the outcome of the […]
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Come for the Amenity Kits, Stay for the Flight
In the past few years, however, high-end airlines have begun reinvesting in first class, betting that a small but influential market of elite travelers was being ignored. First-class availability globally […]
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Business Travel Is Evolving Faster Than Ever. We’ll Help You Navigate It
It might feel like a distant memory, but in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic radically transformed how people lived, and specifically how they worked. At the time, plenty of health experts, […]
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Business Class Ain’t What It Used to Be. Don’t Tell First Class
They’ll be competing with Delta Air Lines, the largest US carrier by revenue, which provides some of the industry’s plushest business-class seating. Its Delta One suites come with a Missoni-branded […]
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Airplane Wi-Fi Is Now … Good?
Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025 has marked a sea change for the skies: the rollout […]
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For Today’s Business Traveler, It’s All About Work-Life Integration
This story is part of The New Era of Work Travel, a collaboration between the editors of WIRED and Condé Nast Traveler to help you navigate the perks and pitfalls […]
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Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets
That’s changing. With the majority of companies implementing hybrid or full-time office mandates, business travel has resumed and, with that, business jets are back in business. So far this year, […]
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This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters
“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an [autonomous vehicle] deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous […]
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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing
Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a […]
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Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies
US attorney general Pam Bondi has told at least 10 tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, that they have “incurred no liability” for supporting TikTok despite the federal […]
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Airport Lounges Are Sexy Again—if You Can Get In
Let’s be honest: A crowded airport lounge without a seat in sight is usually less appealing than an empty gate area. Over the past decade, an influx of travelers with […]
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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company’s Grok chatbot. The permit […]
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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?
What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out. The alien in question is an animated chatbot known […]
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Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent-poaching spree. In a full-throated response sent to OpenAI researchers Monday evening and obtained by WIRED, […]
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Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million […]
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Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
As Congress races to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” it’s also sprinting to placate the many haters of the bill’s “AI moratorium” provision which originally required a 10-year […]
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Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many of […]
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OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head with the social giant in the war for top research […]
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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren have joined Meta’s superintelligence team. […]
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No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office
Neither the Department of Justice nor the White House responded to requests for comment on this issue; the Library of Congress declined to comment. Perkins and Nieves did not enter […]
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OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
A small clause inside OpenAI’s contract with Microsoft, once considered a distant hypothetical, has now become a flashpoint in one of the biggest partnerships in tech. The clause states that […]
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Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out
Before June 8, the skilled and respected ABC News television journalist Terry Moran was neither a household name nor political lightning rod. That changed abruptly when Moran posted on X […]
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Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding
The lavish wedding between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez is scheduled for June 26-28 in Venice, Italy. For months, however, protests against the event have taken […]
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Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
Michael Calore: So publishing is definitely at the top of the list of industries that have been worried about AI plagiarizing original work, and we should all know because we’re […]
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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch
Advocates for the idea that AI training is transformative still see Chhabria’s ruling as a win. “Judge Chhabria ruled today, bottom line, that training generative AI models on copyrighted material […]
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AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in software, too. AI researchers at UC Berkeley […]
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This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing
According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in 2025, accounting for more than a quarter of cars sold […]
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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding […]
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China’s Electric-Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hot Spots
Xiaomi released its first EV model, the SU7, in early 2024. By the end of the year, foreign diplomats, investors, and guests from other Chinese companies had already started arriving […]
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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
Elon Musk’s lawyers claimed that he “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court filing related to his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. However, Musk has posted pictures […]
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A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin
Mining firms are also facing heightened competition for limited energy resources in the US, mostly from AI companies flush with venture funding. New projections from the US Department of Energy […]
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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’? | WIRED
Michael Calore: Yeah. Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in Silicon Valley is fascinating. Lauren Goode: Well, if anyone […]
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‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun. It’s […]
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전액 받는 데 얼마나 걸릴까요?
전액 받는 데 전세계약이 종료되었음에도 임대인이 보증금을 돌려주지 않을 경우, 임차인은 전세금반환소송을 통해 권리를 주장하게 됩니다. 하지만 소송을 결심한 후 가장 많이 묻는 질문 중 하나는 **“전액 받는 데 얼마나 […]
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What Big Tech’s Band of Execs Will Do in the Army
When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I […]
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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question
Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous vehicle operate, well, […]
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Complaints About Tariff Evasion Have Jumped 160 Percent Under Trump
US Customs and Border Protection experienced a sharp rise in reports about potential tariff evasion after President Donald Trump abruptly imposed new duties on over 100 countries earlier this year, […]
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Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine
However, after WIRED sent Shabanov details about how SuppCo conducted its tests, he conceded that it’s possible there may have been quality control issues with some of the product and […]
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This AI Model Never Stops Learning
Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]
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eBay and Vestiaire Collective Want an Exemption from Trump’s Tariffs
Last month, Suzanne Smith-Darley felt fantastic. She had just bought a used Chanel handbag from a Japanese seller on eBay for $800—a steal compared to the original asking price of […]
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How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan Greenwell chronicles the devastating impacts of one of the most […]
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Companies Warn SEC That Mass Deportations Pose Serious Business Risk
Other filings suggested a recession could come even earlier. The community bank Hanmi Bank, under its holding company Hanmi Financial Corp., said in an SEC filing that “the combination of […]
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The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown
On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar in the sometimes scruffy Capitol Hill neighborhood. The group had […]
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Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers, and technologists gathered to discuss the end of humanity. The […]
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Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the San Francisco–based AI image generation startup is a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” that generates “endless unauthorized copies” of […]
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How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever
In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford University’s graduating class in a few days. […]
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Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs
The fact that AI can produce results that range from remarkably impressive to shockingly problematic may explain why developers seem so divided about the technology. WIRED surveyed programmers in March […]
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Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs
Zhang says his company makes money on each individual conversation after excluding certain overhead costs, but he declined to comment on the startup’s overall profitability. With $100 million raised from […]
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Unpacking AI Agents | WIRED
Will Knight: Maybe we also need a renewed open source movement so we’re not just using agents that belong and funnel data to these giant companies. Use open source code […]
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The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need details, I’m 66 and single. I’m from […]
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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale
US Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing firm 23andMe demanding details about consumer data privacy should either […]
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How Waymo Handles Footage From Events Like the LA Immigration Protests
Waymo declined to answer questions from WIRED about how many cameras are inside its vehicles, exactly how long footage is retained, and whether the company has ever turned over footage […]
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A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World
A new machine learning approach that draws inspiration from the way the human brain seems to model and learn about the world has proven capable of mastering a number of […]
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A Google Shareholder Is Suing the Company Over the TikTok Ban
Tan, who declined to say whether he personally supports the TikTok ban, believes the central issue is enforcement. “There is a federal law that says the TikTok app should not […]
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection […]
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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model
Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. […]
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Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration
Katie Drummond: I have to shop at a specialty hat store. Because my head actually doesn’t… I can’t wear. Lauren Goode: What is this store called? Katie Drummond: I can’t […]
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Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir, facing mounting public scrutiny for its work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive stance toward journalists and perceived critics this week, both at a defense conference in […]
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Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap
It took only a few hours to wipe $152 billion of value from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100 million in value from TrumpCoin. The end of the bromance […]
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Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to […]
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Uber Just Reinvented the Bus … Again
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every few years, a Silicon Valley gig-economy company announces a “disruptive” innovation that looks a whole […]
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Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts
The data show the US is also on the hook for about $14 billion for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service at numerous offices, such as a Department of Interior facility in […]
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Barry Diller Invented Prestige TV. Then He Conquered the Internet
Of all the egomaniacal lions who ruled Hollywood during the 20th century gatekeeper era, very few made a brilliant pivot to the internet. The exception is Barry Diller. After leading […]
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Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump’s Breakup
Some of Trump’s high-profile backers from Silicon Valley stayed mostly quiet during the Trump-Musk flare-up on Thursday or tried to turn attention to other topics, including Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, […]
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At Bitcoin 2025, Crypto Purists and the MAGA Faithful Collide
Now that Trump is in office, launching his own crypto ventures and asking for legislation establishing (light) digital asset regulations to appear on his desk by August, his supporters’ voices […]
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Trumpworld Is Fighting Over ‘Official’ Crypto Wallet
As Donald Trump and his family stretch into nearly every corner of the cryptocurrency sector, a dispute has broken out over which corporate entities are permitted to wield the Trump […]
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Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground
Wait though … Perplexity—like other AI search engines—has been criticized for hallucinating and getting things wrong. We welcome this criticism, because it’s the best way for us to continually improve. […]
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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
In fact, agents were still there, in his cousin’s home, listening in on the call, which she had made at their instruction. Akasha told his cousin not to talk to […]
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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke
Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” […]
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Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Student Visas Could Derail Critical AI Research
At some US colleges, international students make up the majority of doctoral students in departments like computer science. At the University of Chicago, for example, foreign nationals accounted for 57 […]
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How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’
On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was “Oversight of AI.” The session was a lovefest, with both […]
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Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results in Far Fewer Content Takedowns
Meta announced in January it would end some content moderation efforts, loosen its rules, and put more emphasis on supporting “free expression.” The shifts resulted in fewer posts being removed […]
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There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises
“My predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past,” Musk admitted to investors in 2023. “I’m the boy who cried FSD.” He certainly has. Many times. Indeed, […]
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Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’
The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake and absolutely unambiguous wrongdoing, Bowman says. A typical example would […]
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Auto Shanghai 2025 Wasn’t Just a Car Show. It Was a Warning to the West
It has long been said that visiting China from the West is akin to landing in a parallel universe. Pick any major city and most aspects look and feel broadly […]
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Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve
Trump Media and Technology Group, a publicly traded company in which US president Donald Trump and his family own a majority stake, has raised $2.5 billion to accumulate a “bitcoin […]
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Businesses Got Squeezed by Trump’s Tariffs. Now Some of Them Want Their Money Back
As the chief merchandising officer for one of the largest sellers on Amazon, Owen Carr knew that the deck chairs he ordered from a Chinese factory in early April would […]









































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