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The EU Targets Apple, Meta, and Alphabet for Investigations Under New Tech Law

The probes are the first to take place under Europe’s landmark Digital Markets Act—and add to Apple's mounting antitrust woes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Mar 26
The Case Against Apple Weaponizes the Cult of Cupertino

The US government's antitrust suit argues that Apple's sticky ecosystem keeps hold of customers by penalizing those who leave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10m
Mar 25
Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11m
Mar 22
Here's Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content

OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8m
Mar 21
Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules

YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 20
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears

WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10m
Mar 19
What’s Behind the Bitcoin Price Surge? Vibes, Mostly

The price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11m
Mar 18
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 15
Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play Goat Simulator 3

These AI agents can adapt to games they haven’t played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Mar 14
Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok

Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 13
Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Mar 12
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Mar 11
The Fear That Inspired the Creation of OpenAI

Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 08
The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators

Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10m
Mar 07
The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways

As Chinese automakers prepare to launch in the US, the White House is investigating whether cars made in China could pose a national security threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Mar 06
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Breach of Contract

In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Mar 05
Here Come the AI Worms

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9m
Mar 04
The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started

Google apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Mar 01
Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament

In an interview with WIRED, the politician behind the ban hits out at Amazon for being evasive about working conditions in its warehouses. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Feb 29
The US Supreme Court Holds the Future of the Internet in Its Hands

If the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Feb 28
He Helped Expose Wirecard's Fraud. Now His Startup Tries to Make Whistleblowing Safer

Pav Gill says he suffered retaliation after he raised the alarm about fraud at German payments giant Wirecard. His startup Confide aims to protect future whistleblowers from harm. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Feb 27
Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian

Only one of Reddit's two cofounders is named in a new filing that puts the company weeks away from going public. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, now CEO, fell out in 2020. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8m
Feb 26
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos

OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9m
Feb 23
Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store

Before it disappeared on Tuesday, Kimi enabled iPhone owners to stream illegal bootlegs of popular movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4m
Feb 22
This Tiny Website Is Google’s First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars

TDCommons is a free space for inventors to lay claim to breakthroughs without having to file a patent. Why is it so off the radar? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10m
Feb 21
Google’s Flagship AI Model Gets a Mighty Fast Upgrade

Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Feb 20
The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin

In a lengthy cross-examination in the UK High Court, Craig Wright rejected all claims he had forged and manipulated evidence that indicate he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10m
Feb 19
Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes

AI fakes are a disinformation menace. But some politicians, executives, and academics see them as a way to extend their reach. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6m
Feb 16
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory

ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7m
Feb 15
Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries

Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5m
Feb 14