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17.01.2025
Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok.
It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.
Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.
The hosts of "Uncanny Valley" spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went.
The same lawyers handling a lawsuit over the infamous Hawk Tuah crypto coin are bringing a new class action against memecoin platform Pump.Fun for allegedly putting investors in high financial risk.
16.01.2025
A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes.
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences.
Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren’t expecting many forced relocations.
15.01.2025
Less than a week before Donald Trump takes office, the SEC has filed a complaint against his most prominent benefactor.
14.01.2025
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
The holders of the vast majority of the world’s wealth? Men. So many men—from Trump and Musk and Putin to every CEO, crypto schmo, and solar bro in between.
The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.
12.01.2025
So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.
11.01.2025
In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.
10.01.2025
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
This week we break down the new government committee being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
09.01.2025
Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.
By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.
Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior.
08.01.2025
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.
Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.
07.01.2025
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
The market for absurdist cryptocurrencies mutated into a hundred-billion-dollar phenomenon in 2024. Yes, things can get even more deranged.
04.01.2025
One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?”
24.12.2024
One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.”
22.12.2024
Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.
21.12.2024
A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.
Chatbots aren't very good at picking gifts, but that didn't stop me from burning the planet in a quest for the perfect baking equipment.
20.12.2024
To wrap up 2024, this week on 'Uncanny Valley' we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.
WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.
19.12.2024
Botto is a 'decentralized AI artist' whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.
14.12.2024
Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine-learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images. Some have objected to the decision.
13.12.2024
This week on 'Uncanny Valley,' we debate which social media apps are still worth the scroll.
12.12.2024
Bedbugs and cockroaches. Filthy shared equipment. Constant surveillance, and zero control over their accounts. These are just some of the deplorable conditions adult cammers say they face on the job.
AI is replacing the humans who pretend to be OnlyFans stars in online amorous messages.
The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.