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WeWork’s controversial former CEO tried to acquire the bankrupt company he left in crisis. After being rebuffed, Adam Neumann will have to pivot to something new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever feel like Instagram or TikTok algorithms know you a bit too well? The backlash against automated curation is building, and new algorithm-free platforms are springing up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a chaotic housing market that has shut many buyers out, fractional home ownership and investing trends are taking off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform into an uncertain future. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

European chip machine-maker ASML is at the center of US-China trade tensions. Its new chief executive now faces a daunting political juggling act. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Airbnb is encouraging developers to build condo towers purposefully designed to be listed for short-term rentals. Units are selling fast in Miami and coming soon to other US cities. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After cryptocurrency prices spiked, scammers have flooded the market with fake tokens that promise investors great riches, but leave them penniless. It's working. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Do Kwon’s crypto empire fell to pieces, tens of billions of dollars were wiped out. A civil jury in the US has found he lied to investors. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Under threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI-enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress and Tumblr. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community. Hint: It’s a lot of purple hair. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI and other AI leaders think new leaps in machine intelligence will require new forms of computer hardware. One proposal involves connecting GPUs with light. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rare case in Danish court shows how automated clicks and fake accounts can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple Music and Spotify. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and fired an employee—for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh in support of Palestinian people. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The app’s shopping features won over sellers and shoppers by offering deals that can seem too good to be true. Now TikTok is raising sellers fees, which may translate into higher prices. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Apple says the company's grip on iPhone users and developers is blocking future innovation in tech. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google's answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A chatbot interface on LinkedIn tries to speed up job searches by offering advice such as an assessment of how well a job opening matches a person's skills. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will in future be labeled as artificial. But only if they are made using tools from companies willing to work with Meta. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The skyrocketing value of cryptocurrency is the center of a disagreement over the FTX bankruptcy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As interest rates and antitrust pressure climbed in 2023, Alphabet made no major acquisitions for the first time in years. Apple, Amazon, and Meta also curbed dealmaking. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces an uncertain future after its leader departed this month. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In his new book Read Write Own, investor Chris Dixon mounts a defense of blockchain, arguing it can save society from the monopoly power of tech giants. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the US and other countries ponder how to prevent dangerous uses of AI, some researchers suggest building limitations into crucial chips like GPUs to cap the power of algorithms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that’s similar to Apple’s App Store. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections in Moldova, according to new research. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The arrival of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US offers easy access to the masses. Purists will steer clear. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Carmaker Toyota is developing robots capable of learning to do household chores by observing how humans take on the tasks. The project is an example of robotics getting a boost from generative AI. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new app store from the creator of ChatGPT invites companies to build custom “GPTs” that add functionality to the chatbot. OpenAI isn’t saying how app builders will get paid. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a “free speech” video platform. The nature of the probe remains unknown. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Droughts, heat, and extreme weather are pushing crops to their limits. The race is on to innovate faster than the Earth warms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Autonomous vehicles are operating—and getting into crashes—in US cities. But state laws in Texas, California, Arizona, and other places prevent local governments from regulating the technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Automobiles have gotten much bigger in recent years, alarming road safety experts. The chief engineer at Chrysler’s owner Stellantis says the solution is offering drivers more choice and smarter software. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generative AI companies’ struggles with content moderation, sketchy labor practices, and disinformation show them fighting the same problems that tripped up social platforms before them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than a dozen organizations called on the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Apple for anticompetitive behavior in how it controls messaging, apps, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google’s new AI model Gemini launched inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Social video app Flip is trying to create a social platform dedicated to reviewing and buying products. Some early adopters are cashing in on the app's giveaways—but have questions about its future. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 217-mph, 1,001-hp electrified Lamborghini Revuelto is so much fun it will make you lose the ability to speak properly. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Raising a broad range of concerns into the way X has been run under Elon Musk, EU officials also claimed graphic content of the Hamas attack on Israel had been allowed to spread widely. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2021, more than 13,000 people died in US alcohol-related crashes. The top US road safety regulator is exploring tech in vehicles that could check whether a driver is drunk. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A company working with Tesla’s main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

LinkedIn and OpenAI cofounder Reid Hoffman says he's glad Sam Altman is leading the AI company again. Hoffman and other AI experts discussed the perils and potential of AI at a WIRED event Tuesday. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices