Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff

Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff

    17 Feb 2025

Sam Altman is leaving no room for doubt about his views on an Elon...

An Adviser to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump

An Adviser to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump

    17 Feb 2025

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to...

How We’re Keeping Tabs on DOGE

How We’re Keeping Tabs on DOGE

    16 Feb 2025

Leah Feiger: And so many have been. Absolutely. Katie Drummond: So many have been,...

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

    16 Feb 2025

Lauren Goode: I also think if there is a bright spot, it’s probably going...

DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad

DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad

    15 Feb 2025

At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the...

How do I find manufacturers that are cost-effective?

    15 Feb 2025

find manufacturers that are cost-effective In the modern business landscape, finding manufacturers that offer...

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla

    15 Feb 2025

“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products,...

The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

    14 Feb 2025

When news first broke about Elon Musk’s tech takeover of the United States government,...

TikTok Is Back in US App Stores

TikTok Is Back in US App Stores

    14 Feb 2025

Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to...

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

    13 Feb 2025

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States....

Are copper electronics suitable for high-frequency devices?

    13 Feb 2025

Are copper electronics suitable for high-frequency devices? Copper electronics are widely known for their...

Federal Workers Launch New Lawsuit to Fight DOGE’s Data Access

Federal Workers Launch New Lawsuit to Fight DOGE’s Data Access

    13 Feb 2025

A new lawsuit filed by more than 100 federal workers today in the US...

Binance Moved Fast, Broke Things—and Paid the Price. Richard Teng Is Cleaning Up

Binance Moved Fast, Broke Things—and Paid the Price. Richard Teng Is Cleaning Up

    12 Feb 2025

But do you expect to find it difficult to bring about a new era...

The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’

The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’

    12 Feb 2025

Days after the rule went into effect in January, the bureau was sued by...

The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy

The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy

    11 Feb 2025

“If you break it down, there are a lot of moving components in the...

The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison

The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison

    11 Feb 2025

Gambaryan says he wanted to hear Ogunjobi explain himself. On the phone, Gambaryan remembers,...

Your New Favorite Sex Toy Might Be a Drugstore ‘Egg’

Your New Favorite Sex Toy Might Be a Drugstore ‘Egg’

    10 Feb 2025

Unlike the Fleshlight, which is flamboyantly anatomical in design—some versions are even molded to...

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, but Can It Last?

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, but Can It Last?

    10 Feb 2025

Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I’m incapable...

2025: The Year of the AI App

2025: The Year of the AI App

    09 Feb 2025

What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following...

Temu and Shein Raised Prices, Removed Products as Trump’s China Tariffs Went Into Effect

Temu and Shein Raised Prices, Removed Products as Trump’s China Tariffs Went Into Effect

    09 Feb 2025

Lorianna Calhoun, a Shein shopper, tells WIRED that of the roughly 170 items that...

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

    08 Feb 2025

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Many of...

Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

    08 Feb 2025

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau...

USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

    07 Feb 2025

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the United States Agency for...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi

    07 Feb 2025

For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs...

LinkedIn Is Testing an AI Tool That Could Transform How People Search for Jobs

LinkedIn Is Testing an AI Tool That Could Transform How People Search for Jobs

    06 Feb 2025

LinkedIn is testing a new job-hunting tool that uses a custom large language model...

US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China

US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China

    06 Feb 2025

Adhering to the new rules is also proving to be a major lift for...

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

    05 Feb 2025

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial...

USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos

USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos

    05 Feb 2025

The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong...

Trump’s Plan to Make European Cars More Expensive Has a Fatal Flaw

Trump’s Plan to Make European Cars More Expensive Has a Fatal Flaw

    04 Feb 2025

President Trump wants Americans to buy fewer European cars and Europeans to buy more...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts

    04 Feb 2025

USAID staff who still have access to their email accounts received a notice on...

Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals

Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals

    03 Feb 2025

An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app...

The World According to Marc Andreessen

The World According to Marc Andreessen

    03 Feb 2025

Marc Andreessen : So, I decided to read my way out in both...

Early Investors in Donald Trump’s Memecoin May Have Been Tipped Off, Experts Claim

Early Investors in Donald Trump’s Memecoin May Have Been Tipped Off, Experts Claim

    02 Feb 2025

The crypto wallets that invested the largest sums in TRUMP largely purchased the coin...

DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot

DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot

    02 Feb 2025

“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities...

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek

    01 Feb 2025

OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model...

Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It

Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It

    01 Feb 2025

Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup...

DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up

DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up

    31 Jan 2025

It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction...

Meta Is Dismantling DEI Programs but Tells Investors It Still Wants ‘Cognitive Diversity’

Meta Is Dismantling DEI Programs but Tells Investors It Still Wants ‘Cognitive Diversity’

    31 Jan 2025

Meta employees typically vote on which questions executives should address at companywide meetings. Ahead...

Washington DC Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far

Washington DC Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far

    30 Jan 2025

Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane...

Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data

Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data

    30 Jan 2025

“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open...

Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost

Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost

    29 Jan 2025

Altogether, around 10 attempts to change the gulf’s name have been reverted over the...

Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

    29 Jan 2025

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new...

DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors

DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors

    28 Jan 2025

The true price of developing DeepSeek’s new models remains unknown, however, since one figure...

DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China

DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China

    28 Jan 2025

The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from...

Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It

Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It

    27 Jan 2025

The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking...

Singapore’s Likee Is an Unlikely Winner of the TikTok Ban

Singapore’s Likee Is an Unlikely Winner of the TikTok Ban

    27 Jan 2025

Panic over the US TikTok ban increased usage and downloads of a slew of...

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

    26 Jan 2025

Today, DeepSeek is one of the only leading AI firms in China that doesn’t...

Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up

Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up

    26 Jan 2025

It’s hard to quantify the Swiftie demographic’s impact on these bets, but preseason, WIRED...

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

    25 Jan 2025

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The rapid...

‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company

‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company

    25 Jan 2025

The one exception to that is the UMG v. Anthropic case, because at least...

OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You

OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You

    24 Jan 2025

OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial...

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

    24 Jan 2025

The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the...

Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers

Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers

    23 Jan 2025

This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation.

Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America’s Geek Squad

Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America’s Geek Squad

    23 Jan 2025

Addressing a single executive order from Donald Trump’s voluminous first-day edicts is like singling...

How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram

How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram

    22 Jan 2025

It was an opportunity too good for Meta to ignore: On January 19, TikTok,...

여성 파트타임 일자리는 개인적 성장에 어떻게 기여하나요?

    22 Jan 2025

여성 파트타임 일자리는 개인적 성장에 어떻게 기여하나요? 여성 파트타임 일자리는 단순히 경제적인 자립을 돕는...

Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

    22 Jan 2025

Those allegations of murders-for-hire, in fact, dissuaded the first Trump administration from granting clemency...

RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty

RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty

    21 Jan 2025

As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English,...

The Role of Encryption in Information Security

    21 Jan 2025

Encryption in Information Security Encryption is an essential part of information security because it...

The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics

The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics

    21 Jan 2025

In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and...

TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores

TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores

    20 Jan 2025

For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned...

How Do Managed IT Services Assist With Cloud Hosting?

    20 Jan 2025

Managed IT Services Assist With Cloud Hosting Managed IT services assist with cloud hosting...

TikTok Is Already Back Online

TikTok Is Already Back Online

    20 Jan 2025

Less than 24 hours after going dark, TikTok says it has come back online...

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

    19 Jan 2025

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s...

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

    19 Jan 2025

Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI, recently left to join...

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

    18 Jan 2025

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its...

Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media

Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media

    18 Jan 2025

There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy....

Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars

Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars

    17 Jan 2025

Polestar makes the Polestar 3 in a South Carolina factory, and last year warned...

They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun

They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun

    17 Jan 2025

A crypto investor has brought a class action lawsuit against Pump.Fun, a platform for...

What Happens When You Turn Your Life Over to an AI Assistant?

What Happens When You Turn Your Life Over to an AI Assistant?

    16 Jan 2025

Gemini : Key body-weight exercises, squats, stand with feet shoulder-width apart, lower your...

Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

    16 Jan 2025

Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common...

That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop

That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop

    15 Jan 2025

NBC Sportz did not respond to requests for comment. Neither NBCSport.co.uk nor BBCSportss.co.uk has...

The ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Ever Is Growing at an Alarming Rate, Report Says

The ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Ever Is Growing at an Alarming Rate, Report Says

    15 Jan 2025

Adding an in-house communication service known as “ChatMe,” a cryptocurrency exchange (Huione Crypto), and...

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

    14 Jan 2025

For a while in the mid-2000s, a refrigerator-sized box in Abu Dhabi was considered...

Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

    14 Jan 2025

A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where...

New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World

New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World

    13 Jan 2025

The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed...

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

    13 Jan 2025

Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon...

Demystifying the Department of Government Efficiency

Demystifying the Department of Government Efficiency

    12 Jan 2025

Zoë Schiffer: It must have been a long walk. Lauren Goode: I mean, I...

Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves

Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves

    12 Jan 2025

This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and...

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

    11 Jan 2025

The law says it will be “unlawful” for entities to “distribute, maintain or update”...

The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers

The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers

    11 Jan 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect...

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

    10 Jan 2025

The privacy experts who spoke with WIRED described Rumble, Quora, and WeChat as unusual...

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

    10 Jan 2025

“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get-out-of-jail-free card,...

AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

    09 Jan 2025

Meta caused a stir last week when it let slip that it intends to...

Meta Is Taking All the Wrong Lessons From X

Meta Is Taking All the Wrong Lessons From X

    09 Jan 2025

“Meta has perennially been a home for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation,” claims Gordon...

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

    08 Jan 2025

Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon...

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

    08 Jan 2025

Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including...

Europe Wanted to Lead the World on EVs. Its Carmakers Can’t Keep Up

Europe Wanted to Lead the World on EVs. Its Carmakers Can’t Keep Up

    07 Jan 2025

With European EV sales and production lagging behind in comparison, a blame game has...

HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me

HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me

    07 Jan 2025

To learn any programming language is to learn how to debug it. But a...

The Memecoin Shenanigans Are Just Getting Started

The Memecoin Shenanigans Are Just Getting Started

    06 Jan 2025

For all the goofiness, memecoin fever has been embraced by some corners of the...

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

    04 Jan 2025

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms...

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

    03 Jan 2025

Experts believe the operation is based in China and relies on a drop-shipping scheme....

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees

    03 Jan 2025

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s...

It’s Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health

It’s Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health

    02 Jan 2025

A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up...

To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices

To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices

    30 Dec 2024

At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and...

Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete

Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete

    26 Dec 2024

Love it or hate it, you have to admit Temu had a banger year....

All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025

All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025

    25 Dec 2024

Lauren Goode: I don’t remember that. Zoë Schiffer: I think she did. Michael Calore:...

Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush

Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush

    24 Dec 2024

“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people...

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank

    24 Dec 2024

Buttu, who regularly travels to the city of Ramallah in the West Bank from...

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

    23 Dec 2024

In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that...

Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims

Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims

    23 Dec 2024

Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being...

Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

    22 Dec 2024

If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity...

The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs

The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs

    22 Dec 2024

I asked Amko Leenart, director of design for Ford Europe, about why Ford used...

I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping

I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping

    21 Dec 2024

In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily...

OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills

OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills

    21 Dec 2024

OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to...

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

    20 Dec 2024

Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of...

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

    20 Dec 2024

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal...

The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto

The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto

    19 Dec 2024

Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says...

Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

    19 Dec 2024

It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an...

Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands

Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands

    18 Dec 2024

The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it...

US Meat, Milk Prices Should Spike if Donald Trump Carries Out Mass Deportation Schemes

US Meat, Milk Prices Should Spike if Donald Trump Carries Out Mass Deportation Schemes

    18 Dec 2024

In recent earnings calls, shareholders in some publicly traded meat companies have asked whether...

Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant

Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant

    17 Dec 2024

“Mariner is our exploration, very much a research prototype at the moment, of how...

Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

    17 Dec 2024

If that tool were to leak or be sold online—Rodriguez himself says he doesn’t...

AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All

AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All

    16 Dec 2024

Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have...

The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road

The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road

    16 Dec 2024

“The Cybertruck’s weight, stiff structure, and sharp design have raised valid concerns,” she tells...

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

    15 Dec 2024

People don’t know what they don’t have until you sell it to them, right?...

Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous

Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous

    15 Dec 2024

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at...

Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

    14 Dec 2024

A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’...

Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla

Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla

    14 Dec 2024

As I arrive, he’s laying out an impressive lunch spread of salads and carved...

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

    13 Dec 2024

Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer:...

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

    13 Dec 2024

In addition to the trove of books, the Institutional Data Initiative is also working...

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

    12 Dec 2024

“When we were talking with workers, they just wanted to get back to the...

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

    11 Dec 2024

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the...

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    11 Dec 2024

MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure the performance of their artificial intelligence systems,...

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Inside a Fusion Startup’s Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony

    10 Dec 2024

So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of...

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    10 Dec 2024

Alex Mashinsky, former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, has pleaded guilty to two...

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    09 Dec 2024

The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing...

To Build Electric Cars, Jaguar Land Rover Had to Redesign the Factory

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    09 Dec 2024

Transforming a car manufacturing plant entering its seventh decade into a futureproof facility, ready...

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    08 Dec 2024

“We do see variation across different vehicles and models,” continues Argue. There are other...

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A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He’d Created. Then Came the Backlash

    08 Dec 2024

In July 2026, a new regime will take effect in California, where Biesk’s family...

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    07 Dec 2024

The burgeoning field of social-emotional AI is tackling the very jobs that people used...

A Federal Appeals Court Just Upheld the TikTok Ban. Here’s What Could Happen Next

A Federal Appeals Court Just Upheld the TikTok Ban. Here’s What Could Happen Next

    07 Dec 2024

The appeals court ruled today that the PAFACA does not violate TikTok’s free speech...

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The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence

    06 Dec 2024

Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had...

Canva Revolutionized Graphic Design. Will It Survive the Age of AI?

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    06 Dec 2024

Right from the start, we had this Venn diagram: On one side is creativity,...

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    05 Dec 2024

Lauren Goode: I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a senior writer at WIRED. Zoë Schiffer: I’m...

OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

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    05 Dec 2024

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in...

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    04 Dec 2024

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers...

Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025

Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025

    04 Dec 2024

Big changes could be coming to Airbnb next year. In a conversation at WIRED’s...

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

    03 Dec 2024

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one...

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Jaguar Type 00 EV: Price, Specs, Availability

    03 Dec 2024

One of the many criticisms leveled at Jaguar in the firestorm ignited by its...

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Jaguar’s Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online

    02 Dec 2024

Ahead of the official reveal at Miami Art Week, snaps of the brand’s Design...

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    30 Nov 2024

WIRED’s Big Interview has long been the definitive source for in-depth conversations with the...

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Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’

    30 Nov 2024

Engagement and profits on social platforms are built on fomenting dissatisfaction and disinformation—but there’s...

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We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence

    29 Nov 2024

There’s a growing trend of people and organizations rejecting the unsolicited imposition of AI...

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How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter

    29 Nov 2024

In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will...

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    28 Nov 2024

Next year will be Big Tech’s finale. Critique of Big Tech is now common...

US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

    28 Nov 2024

The US government has been imposing similar export controls on China aimed at limiting...

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The Crypto Industry Is Helping Donald Trump Pick SEC Chair

    27 Nov 2024

In July, at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump pledged to fire Gensler...

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Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated

    27 Nov 2024

AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The introduction of automated prose can...

Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn’t

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    26 Nov 2024

You more than likely know Xiaomi, so-called Apple of China, as a maker of...

The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops

The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops

    26 Nov 2024

LexisNexis spokesperson Paul Eckloff disputes that freezing was an overreach. The company deemed that...

Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

    25 Nov 2024

Aftermarket prices might soften further as Tesla is now starting to deliver a new...

Google Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Its Search Monopoly

Google Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Its Search Monopoly

    25 Nov 2024

To give competitors a leg up, the government wants Google to share its search...

The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired

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    24 Nov 2024

James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters...

Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination

Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination

    24 Nov 2024

No question about it: Nadella’s Microsoft is a triumph. Finally, in the 2020s, Microsoft...

Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up

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    23 Nov 2024

Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA...

Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard Of

Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard Of

    23 Nov 2024

US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have...

The World’s Biggest Maker of EVs Has the Worst Appraisal of Human Rights

The World’s Biggest Maker of EVs Has the Worst Appraisal of Human Rights

    22 Nov 2024

“ disclosures show a serious lack of transparency on human rights diligence in its...

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

    22 Nov 2024

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York...

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

    21 Nov 2024

Lauren Goode: It sounds like you’re a little bit aligned with the successful tech...

Nvidia Says Its Blackwell Chip Is Fine, Nothing to See Here

Nvidia Says Its Blackwell Chip Is Fine, Nothing to See Here

    21 Nov 2024

A large portion of Nvidia’s growth this quarter was driven by data center revenue,...

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

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    20 Nov 2024

A third-generation San Franciscan, Gabe says he grew up playing with Nancy Pelosi’s kids...

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    20 Nov 2024

At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media...

The Norwegian Company Blamed for California’s Hydrogen Car Woes

The Norwegian Company Blamed for California’s Hydrogen Car Woes

    19 Nov 2024

In the meantime, Fulton says California has pivoted to building infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles...

NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump

NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump

    19 Nov 2024

It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout...

Why the US Government Banned Investments in Some Chinese AI Startups

Why the US Government Banned Investments in Some Chinese AI Startups

    18 Nov 2024

The more certain short-term impact is that US investors who are still interested in...

Meta Lobbyist Turned Regulator Says Europe’s Big Tech Rules Have Gone Too Far

Meta Lobbyist Turned Regulator Says Europe’s Big Tech Rules Have Gone Too Far

    18 Nov 2024

According to Salla, Big Tech rules should be left to the new administration entering...

Some of Substack’s Biggest Newsletters Rely On AI Writing Tools

Some of Substack’s Biggest Newsletters Rely On AI Writing Tools

    17 Nov 2024

Substack does not have an official policy governing the use of AI. One of...

The Race to Create the Perfect EV Tire

The Race to Create the Perfect EV Tire

    17 Nov 2024

In 1845, somewhere between inventing a system for detonating explosives by electricity and the...

Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster for Price Gouging

Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster for Price Gouging

    16 Nov 2024

The debacle led to a hearing in the US Senate on consolidation in the...

The New Hatred of Technology

The New Hatred of Technology

    16 Nov 2024

People have never been better, here in the Year of Our Simulation 2024, at...

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

    15 Nov 2024

Lauren Goode: Zoë, you had vegan pizza the other night. You said it was...

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word—and Set Him Free

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word—and Set Him Free

    15 Nov 2024

At sentencing, the judge was also permitted to take under consideration the murder-for-hire allegations,...

The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun

The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun

    14 Nov 2024

Minecraft remains remarkably popular a decade or so after it was first released, thanks...

The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years

The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years

    14 Nov 2024

After more than 1,200 days of silence, Li Ziqi, arguably the most successful internet...

Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

    12 Nov 2024

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate...

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

    10 Nov 2024

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste?...

The Creator of Houseparty Is Back. This Time He’s Taking on Slack and Discord

The Creator of Houseparty Is Back. This Time He’s Taking on Slack and Discord

    10 Nov 2024

Group chats on Towns can be configured in such a way that only people...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

    09 Nov 2024

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as...

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

    09 Nov 2024

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at...

What Donald Trump’s Win Will Mean for Big Tech

What Donald Trump’s Win Will Mean for Big Tech

    08 Nov 2024

The most raucous cheers of the night were prompted by Trump’s promise to fire...

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

    08 Nov 2024

Lauren Goode: Oh, really? Zoë Schiffer: Yes. Lauren Goode: I did not have that...

As Trump Takes a Victory Lap, the Crypto Faithful Kiss the Ring

As Trump Takes a Victory Lap, the Crypto Faithful Kiss the Ring

    07 Nov 2024

On the campaign trail, Trump went out of his way to court their favor....

Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

    07 Nov 2024

Perplexity’s Election Information Hub might also blur the line between verified and free-wheeling AI-generated...

‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza

‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza

    06 Nov 2024

Over the past year, Cisco publicly looked like one of the few tech companies...

TikTok Employees Shrug Off the US Election

TikTok Employees Shrug Off the US Election

    05 Nov 2024

TikTok is one of the tech companies that could be most impacted by the...

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

    05 Nov 2024

On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated...

Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target

Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target

    04 Nov 2024

Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites,...

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

    04 Nov 2024

Is Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste?...

Introducing WIRED’s Flagship Podcast, ‘Uncanny Valley’

Introducing WIRED’s Flagship Podcast, ‘Uncanny Valley’

    03 Nov 2024

Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of global innovation for decades. But the Valley,...

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions

    03 Nov 2024

The messages, potentially misleading US citizens or stoking hate towards various groups, will have...

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

    02 Nov 2024

Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of...

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

    02 Nov 2024

I appreciate that. We own this mistake. So your name is Nazir Ali, but...

AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do

AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do

    01 Nov 2024

Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He...

This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots

This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots

    01 Nov 2024

Despite stunning AI progress in recent years, robots remain stubbornly dumb and limited. The...

The EU Is Investigating Temu for Illegal Products and Addictive Design

The EU Is Investigating Temu for Illegal Products and Addictive Design

    31 Oct 2024

The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Chinese shopping platform Temu, citing...

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

    31 Oct 2024

Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to...

Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future

Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future

    30 Oct 2024

For Europe, the outcome of next week’s US election will have profound consequences. NATO...

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

    27 Oct 2024

Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local...

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

    26 Oct 2024

Demos of AI agents can seem stunning, but getting the technology to perform reliably...