Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?
Lauren Goode: I also think if there is a bright spot, it’s probably going to be some of the apps that are very specific for people that help people winnow down what they’re looking for and find someone who is…
How do teenage guys fashion choices reflect their personality?
teenage guys fashion choices reflect their personality Teenage guys fashion serves as a powerful tool for self-expression, allowing young men to showcase their personalities through the clothes they wear. Fashion is often one of the first ways teenagers communicate who…
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products, but even I can’t stick up for you anymore,” she stated. Róbertsdóttir, now a software developer for Icelandic air traffic control company Isavia, started her tech career…
The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
When news first broke about Elon Musk’s tech takeover of the United States government, a number of people who had spent years trying to transform federal IT practices were surprisingly hopeful. Maybe, they dreamed, Elon Musk and his team at…
TikTok Is Back in US App Stores
Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Apple and Google brought back the Chinese-owned video app after receiving a letter from US attorney general Pam…
DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad
At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the actions of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project would be “maximally transparent,” thanks to information posted to its website. At the time of his…
Federal Workers Launch New Lawsuit to Fight DOGE’s Data Access
A new lawsuit filed by more than 100 federal workers today in the US Southern District Court of New York alleges that the Trump administration’s decision to give Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to their sensitive…
Binance Moved Fast, Broke Things—and Paid the Price. Richard Teng Is Cleaning Up
But do you expect to find it difficult to bring about a new era at Binance when the founder—who is synonymous with the company—remains the largest shareholder? We are very clear in terms of what we are trying to build:…
The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’
Days after the rule went into effect in January, the bureau was sued by NetChoice and TechNet, two trade groups representing Big Tech. In addition to challenging the rule, the groups accused the CFPB of unlawfully exceeding its mandate, alleging…
Are plastic roofing tiles durable in extreme weather?
plastic roofing tiles Plastic roofing tiles have become an increasingly popular option for both residential and commercial buildings due to their impressive durability and ability to withstand extreme weather conditions. Made from high-quality synthetic materials such as PVC (polyvinyl chloride),…
TikTok Stole Our Hearts, but Can It Last?
Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I’m incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you. Lauren Goode: I’m going to assume that romantasy is romance and fantasy? Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yes it is. Dragons. There’s…
The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison
Gambaryan says he wanted to hear Ogunjobi explain himself. On the phone, Gambaryan remembers, the EFCC official began crying, apologizing repeatedly, thanking God that Gambaryan had been released. For Gambaryan it was too much to process. He listened quietly without…
Your New Favorite Sex Toy Might Be a Drugstore ‘Egg’
Unlike the Fleshlight, which is flamboyantly anatomical in design—some versions are even molded to resemble the crotches of individual porn stars—the eggs are downright discreet. “It looks like a fun tech product, even though it’s not that techy. And it…
USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), taking a team of over 10,000 down to just under 300, according to an internal email viewed by WIRED and several current USAID…
2025: The Year of the AI App
What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to churn out brainier and deeper “frontier” foundation models, I settled on a thesis about what’s ahead:…
Temu and Shein Raised Prices, Removed Products as Trump’s China Tariffs Went Into Effect
Lorianna Calhoun, a Shein shopper, tells WIRED that of the roughly 170 items that were once on her Shein wish list, 40 now appear to be unavailable. She noticed they disappeared on Thursday afternoon. It’s not clear how Shein and…
Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Many of us have witnessed unusual and even antisocial behavior at an airport or on a flight. These may range from benign acts such as sleeping on the…
Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, owns stocks valued between $1 million to $5 million in a company that controls Shein, a controversial ecommerce and fashion giant founded in China,…
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has seen its annual deficit increase for the last three years. The Office of Personnel Management, which acts as the HR…
LinkedIn Is Testing an AI Tool That Could Transform How People Search for Jobs
LinkedIn is testing a new job-hunting tool that uses a custom large language model to comb through huge quantities of data to help people find prospective roles. The company believes that artificial intelligence will help users unearth new roles they…
US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China
Adhering to the new rules is also proving to be a major lift for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the US Postal Service. The latter briefly stopped accepting packages from China and Hong Kong altogether on Tuesday, as…
USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice, according to an international service disruption notice posted on the USPS website. The move comes after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on…
Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other…
Inside the Bust That Took Down Pavel Durov—and Upended Telegram
As Maillochon and other French journalists went on to report, prosecutors had been secretly investigating Durov for months over his and Telegram’s alleged failure to block illegal activity—which authorities claim included fraud, drug trafficking, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), organized…
Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It
The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB) test, which, unlike the EU’s new AEB regulation, needs to work in complete darkness. More than 70 percent of pedestrians hit and killed by motorists…
Washington, DC, Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far
Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided and plunged into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, late Wednesday, the first major US air crash in 16 years. From the little that’s known,…
The World According to Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen [archival audio]: So, I decided to read my way out in both directions, both all the way out to the left, all the way to Lenin and Marx and communism on the one hand, and then all the…
DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up
It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not only did employees…
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),”…
OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek
OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open source offering from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. WIRED previously…
Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It
Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have an edge on US rivals in terms of…
Early Investors in Donald Trump’s Memecoin May Have Been Tipped Off, Experts Claim
The crypto wallets that invested the largest sums in TRUMP largely purchased the coin on January 18, the day it launched, according to Nansen analysis. The wallets that achieved the greatest return on their TRUMP investments, meanwhile, had largely sold…
Meta Is Dismantling DEI Programs but Tells Investors It Still Wants ‘Cognitive Diversity’
Meta employees typically vote on which questions executives should address at companywide meetings. Ahead of such a gathering scheduled for Thursday, several of the most-endorsed questions were related to DEI. But Meta leadership have told employees that the popularity of…
Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost
Altogether, around 10 attempts to change the gulf’s name have been reverted over the past week on OpenStreetMap. Several contributors have contended that OSM should wait for common usage in society to change before making an edit to the main…
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who was not involved in the Wiz research but specializes in discovering exposed databases. “This type…
Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took…
DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors
The true price of developing DeepSeek’s new models remains unknown, however, since one figure quoted in a single research paper may not capture the full picture of its costs. “I don’t believe it’s $6 million, but even if it’s $60…
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or Apple sign-on, for instance, it will receive some information from those companies. Advertisers also share…
Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals
An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and causing the price of major tech stocks to plummet. Nvidia saw…
Singapore’s Likee Is an Unlikely Winner of the TikTok Ban
Panic over the US TikTok ban increased usage and downloads of a slew of alternative social media apps, including Texas-based Clapper, Chinese-owned RedNote, and Likee, a little-known platform out of Singapore with an AI-powered video feed similar to TikTok’s, according…
How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
Today, DeepSeek is one of the only leading AI firms in China that doesn’t rely on funding from tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, or ByteDance. A Young Group of Geniuses Eager to Prove Themselves According to Liang, when he put…
Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up
It’s hard to quantify the Swiftie demographic’s impact on these bets, but preseason, WIRED reached out to several sportsbooks including BetRivers, DraftKings, FanDuel and Rivalry, which said the Taylor Swift effect was real, and expected it would continue to affect…
The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: Who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy—those who understand how AI…
‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company
The one exception to that is the UMG v. Anthropic case, because at least early on, earlier versions of Anthropic would generate the song lyrics for songs in the output. That’s a problem. The current status of that case is…
OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You
OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial intelligence to operate a web browser to book trips, buy groceries, hunt for bargains, and do many other online chores. The new tool, called Operator, is…
The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here
The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his return to the White House. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump established a “working group…
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers
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
Addressing a single executive order from Donald Trump’s voluminous first-day edicts is like singling out one bullet in a burst from an AK-47. But one of them hit me in the gut. That is “Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department…
How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram
It was an opportunity too good for Meta to ignore: On January 19, TikTok, one of its biggest social media rivals, was set to go dark across the United States when a new national security law went into effect. In…
엔터테인먼트 파트타임 일자리는 경력 성장 기회를 제공합니까?
엔터테인먼트 파트타임 일자리는 경력 성장 기회를 제공합니까? 최근 들어 많은 사람들이 다양한 파트타임 일자리를 통해 경력 성장의 기회를 얻고자 합니다. 특히 밤알바, 유흥알바, 룸알바와 같은 엔터테인먼트 분야의 아르바이트는 단기적으로 높은 수입을 올릴 수 있는 기회를 제공할 뿐만 아니라, 경력을 쌓고…
Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Those allegations of murders-for-hire, in fact, dissuaded the first Trump administration from granting clemency to Ulbricht. The White House in 2020 considered freeing Ulbricht but ultimately rejected the idea because of the alleged role of violence in the case, according…
RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty
As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English, is trying to capitalize on its newfound popularity by partnering with US influencers who can help promote the company and bring more Americans onto its platform….
How Does GRC Support Governance in Organizations?
GRC Support Governance in Organizations GRC enables governance, risk and compliance to work together to ensure that the organization is operating smoothly, within regulatory requirements and with stakeholder trust. It helps to break down the “silo mentality” of departments and…
The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics
In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, the TRUMP coin setup seems to bear some of the hallmarks of a “classic memecoin pump-and-dump”—a manoeuvre whereby an issuer keeps…
TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores
For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned a major global social media platform, joining the ranks of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China. On Saturday, TikTok officially went dark. Users who attempt to…
How Can Managed IT Services Help With Mobile Device Management?
Managed IT Services Help With Mobile Device Management The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend in mobile device use has added new challenges to the IT department. Many people work from home or other remote locations and access the corporate…
TikTok Is Already Back Online
Less than 24 hours after going dark, TikTok says it has come back online after President-elect Donald Trump gave the company’s service providers—presumably Apple, Google, and Oracle—reassurance that his administration wouldn’t enforce a law banning the app in the first…
It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too
TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users. Shortly before the federally mandated January 19 deadline, TikTok cut off access to anyone attempting…
Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive
Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI, recently left to join a new artificial intelligence research lab founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, according to two people familiar with the discussions. It’s the most high-profile hire…
They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun
A crypto investor has brought a class action lawsuit against Pump.Fun, a platform for launching and investing in meme-inspired cryptocurrencies, after suffering trading losses. Representing the plaintiffs are Wolf Popper and Burwick Law, the two firms handling a separate class…
Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media
There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his home. In April 2018, I ventured there to hear his plans to do the right…
Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars
Polestar makes the Polestar 3 in a South Carolina factory, and last year warned that any sales ban “shuts down the operations of a lawfully organized US company with substantial US investments.” “The US is an important market for us,”…
Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United…
What Happens When You Turn Your Life Over to an AI Assistant?
Gemini [archival audio]: Key body-weight exercises, squats, stand with feet shoulder-width apart, lower your hips as if sitting in a chair, keeping your back straight and chest up. Go as low as you can comfortably. Michael Calore: Lunges for each…
Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All
Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in California exhibits some sort of political preference, moving them to Texas isn’t likely to reshape their viewpoints immediately. In the…
That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop
NBC Sportz did not respond to requests for comment. Neither NBCSport.co.uk nor BBCSportss.co.uk has an email address or other contact information publicly associated with it, so WIRED had no way of making contact. (All three websites were registered by the…
The ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Ever Is Growing at an Alarming Rate, Report Says
Adding an in-house communication service known as “ChatMe,” a cryptocurrency exchange (Huione Crypto), and US dollar-backed stablecoin (“USDH”) suggests that Huione Guarantee is looking to become a truly full-service, self-sufficient platform. The website for USDH, the Elliptic researchers say, describes…
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A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI
For a while in the mid-2000s, a refrigerator-sized box in Abu Dhabi was considered the greatest chess player in the world. Its name was Hydra, and it was a small super-computer—a cabinet full of industrial-grade processors and specially designed chips,…
Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11 years ago. Since 2013, James Howells has been hoping to…
New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World
The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed to prevent the advanced chips and artificial intelligence models themselves from ending up in the hands of adversaries such as China. The administration’s new “AI Diffusion…
No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in an unseemly grovel-fest, making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago, shoveling million-dollar contributions to his inaugural fund, and meddling in the editorial departments…
Demystifying the Department of Government Efficiency
Zoë Schiffer: It must have been a long walk. Lauren Goode: I mean, I heard a lot about jujitsu. 56 minutes of that show was taken up on jujitsu, and then it was also like, “Also, how to live forever.”…
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X’s Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest any more money in its program. Now, it hopes that…
How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work
The law says it will be “unlawful” for entities to “distribute, maintain or update” the app including its source code, or by “providing services” that allow it to keep running as it is now. This distribution, maintenance, or updates could…
The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect your Robux from scammers and hackers. The proposed rule would interpret terms in the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, or EFTA, which has traditionally been used to…
Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe
The privacy experts who spoke with WIRED described Rumble, Quora, and WeChat as unusual suspects but declined to speculate on the rationale behind their inclusion in the investigation. Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit Fairplay, which advocates for digital…
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Russian ‘Shadow Library,’ Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get out of jail free card, notwithstanding that internal Meta records show every relevant decision-maker at Meta, up to and including its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, knew LibGen was…
AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea
Meta caused a stir last week when it let slip that it intends to populate its platform with a significant number of entirely artificial users in the not too distant future. “We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist…
Meta Is Taking All the Wrong Lessons From X
“Meta has perennially been a home for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation,” claims Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information. “Now, Meta apparently has decided to open the floodgates…
Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them
Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can…
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects…
Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving cars. While language models learn how to generate text by training on copious amounts of books,…
The Memecoin Shenanigans Are Just Getting Started
For all the goofiness, memecoin fever has been embraced by some corners of the crypto industry. In search of outsize returns, a small number of hedge funds have invested in memecoins this year. Other investment firms, like Pantera Capital, consider…
To Interact With the Real World, AI Will Gain Physical Intelligence
Recent AI models are surprisingly humanlike in their ability to generate text, audio, and video when prompted. However, so far these algorithms have largely remained relegated to the digital world, rather than the physical, three-dimensional world we live in. In…
Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts
Experts believe the operation is based in China and relies on a drop-shipping scheme. “It’s likely just a reshipper selling controversial or illegal products,” says Zach Edwards, a senior threat researcher at cybersecurity firm Silent Push who specializes in online…
A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead
Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was meant to be playful and fun, but some of…
Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees
Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to Retraction Watch, which helpfully provided an online PDF of the editors’ full…
It’s Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health
A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up around trade, industry, and cars. Think of the docks of Liverpool, the factories of Osaka, the automobile obsession of New York’s Robert Moses, or the low-density…
To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices
At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For now, what’s most impressive about most generative AIs is their capacity to produce lots of mediocre work very quickly. This…
Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete
Love it or hate it, you have to admit Temu had a banger year. Launched in late 2022, the Chinese-owned ecommerce site, known for selling a vast array of astonishingly affordable goods, took only two years to become a household…
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Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush
“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,” Teamsters general president Sean M. O’Brien said in a public statement. “Instead, they’ve pushed workers to the limit and now…
How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank
Buttu, who regularly travels to the city of Ramallah in the West Bank from her home in Haifa, Israel, for work and to visit friends, says Google Maps has led her astray many times in recent years. “I’ve been told…
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This will be sold as a convenience equivalent to having a personal, unpaid assistant. These…
What Makes a B2B Event Successful for Exhibitors?
B2B Event Successful for Exhibitors B2B (Business-to-Business) events are networking opportunities for businesses and professionals in a specific industry. These events are important for facilitating partnerships, exploring business opportunities, and sharing industry knowledge to gain a competitive advantage. In addition,…
Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by a UK judge after being found in contempt of court. The sentence is suspended…
I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping
In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily supplied them when I asked, and while I didn’t click on every single one, none appeared to be a hallucination. Claude, on the other hand, apologized…
Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships that helped thrust Google search front and center into Americans’…
The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs
I asked Amko Leenart, director of design for Ford Europe, about why Ford used VW’s woeful controls in both the Explorer and the Capri, and he told me Ford worked with a partner to better the response on the sliders…
OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to date—one that takes even more time to deliberate over questions—just a day after Google announced its first model of this type. OpenAI’s new model, called o3,…
Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. One hundred million people started using it, practically overnight. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, became a household…
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. As the pandemic…
All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025
Lauren Goode: I don’t remember that. Zoë Schiffer: I think she did. Michael Calore: I don’t know why everybody’s looking at me. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Mike, what’s your recommendation? Michael Calore: Mine is actually weirdly ties into this unboxing we…
Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of artistic expression. That said, Botto still poses some ethical conundrums. Many working artists rightly worry about the…
The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto
Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto wealth management firm, who has personally invested in GOAT. “Like most things in crypto, a lot of…
Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands
The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it is going to end the web as we’ve known it. AI is already upending the economic covenant of the internet that’s existed since the advent of…
Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
“Mariner is our exploration, very much a research prototype at the moment, of how one reimagines the user interface with AI,” Hassabis says. Google launched Gemini in December 2023 as part of an effort to catch up with OpenAI, the…
Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time. I actually looked it up before and I think it’s like three hours and 40 minutes on my phone, which honestly seems…
Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
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Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Investigative Reporting in a copyright infringement case against both OpenAI and Microsoft, says he is “confident that these…
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Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions
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