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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
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.
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.
20.12.2024
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.
To wrap up 2024, this week on 'Uncanny Valley' we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.
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
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.
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.
A new version of Google’s flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way people interact with the physical world.
AI is replacing the humans who pretend to be OnlyFans stars in online amorous messages.
07.12.2024
The Supreme Court, president-elect Donald Trump, or an American buyer could still intervene to save the video platform, which is used by some 170 million Americans.
Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.
06.12.2024
This week on ‘Uncanny Valley,’ we do a deep dive on Open AI’s Sam Altman.
Generative AI could have been an existential threat for Canva, which made billions by making graphic design quick and easy. But for CEO Melanie Perkins, it’s simply making the world more visual.
05.12.2024
The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.
The founder of crypto lender Celsius has admitted to lying to customers about how their money would be used and manipulating markets for his personal gain.
MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.
04.12.2024
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a plan to bring AI infrastructure to countries around the world, and he’s pitching it in person.
“I’m not trying to land on Mars,” Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban joked at WIRED’s The Big Interview event.
The new hires, all experts in computer vision, are the latest AI researchers to jump to a direct competitor in an intensively competitive talent market.
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the Figma cofounder said he’s “fascinated” by whether it’s possible to build a new company on the back of the tainted brand.
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the ex-OpenAI CTO said she’s still in the midst of setting up her startup, but AGI is top of mind.
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said next year Airbnb could have “one of the biggest reinventions” in recent memory.
At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.
03.12.2024
Ahead of the official reveal at Miami Art Week, snaps of the brand's Design Vision Concept have surfaced in all their polarizing pink power.
A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
28.11.2024
The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China’s ability to build large and powerful AI models.
27.11.2024
Billions of dollars in hardware and exorbitant use costs are squashing AI innovation. LLMs need to get leaner and cheaper if progress is to be made.
The president-elect's transition team is consulting with industry leaders as it vets potential replacements for outgoing chair Gary Gensler, sources tell WIRED.
From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.
A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform’s embrace of AI tools has been a success.
26.11.2024
Removing your phone number and address from the internet can be exceedingly difficult. A multibillion-dollar lawsuit led by an unlikely privacy crusader could soon catalyze change for everyone.
23.11.2024
US senator Elizabeth Warren and congressman Jerry Nadler have demanded the government investigate whether VeriSign, steward of the .com domain, is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws.