Business, Spoken

Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that's just a hallucination, but it's working. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

LinkedIn’s new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tesla shareholders will decide whether to back Elon Musk’s leadership—and unprecedented 11-figure bonus—in a pivotal moment for the carmaker. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Influencer Keith Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, became a Pied Piper for amateur stock traders after sparking a historic GameStop short squeeze. But his next move could land him in big trouble. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The medical community's leading authority on traumatic brain injuries wants to make contact sports—which she loves—safer for everyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.Extreme heat and droughts are cutting into hop plants’ yields and making them less bitter. But scientists and farmers are brewing up clever solutions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Biotech giant Bayer plans to distribute mustard greens that have been genetically altered to make them less bitter to grocery stores across the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.Take a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show Security, Spoken.Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The troubled company is back from the brink, but will emerge from bankruptcy to a world where coworking's long-term future is much less certain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Google as an illegal monopolist will have to pay some penalties,” US federal judge James Donato said Thursday, in a hearing discussing next steps after a jury found the company breached antitrust laws. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.The FDA has yet to approve any drugs for life extension. But biotech company Loyal is now a step closer to bringing one to market—for dogs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Using DNA from tangerines and tobacco, food scientists have made a familiar fruit tastier—and more Instagrammable—than ever. We looked into it so you don’t have to. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In London, Uber drivers are protesting a new payment system that they say makes it impossible to understand the algorithms that decide how much they get paid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US government has filed an antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly abusing their dominance in the ticketing market to extinguish healthy competition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A disused church, a school, and a motorcycle garage are among the hyperlocal new coworking spaces cropping up to offer remote workers a place to go. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A UK judge has determined that Craig Wright forged evidence in a campaign to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, in a move that prevents him from bringing further lawsuits in the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Investors are interested in buying TikTok so that it can avoid a US ban. But even if ByteDance accepts, a takeover will be far from simple. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The EU has launched an investigation into Facebook and Instagram's child protection measures as part of mounting concerns around minors’ use of social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The future of once-beloved sports blog Deadspin has been murky since it was acquired by an unknown company called Lineup Publishing in March. The new ownership shared its plans with WIRED. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google’s new voice-operated AI assistant, called Astra, can make sense of what your phone’s camera sees. It was announced one day after OpenAI revealed a similar vision for ChatGPT. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The carmaker’s only European gigafactory has become the target of increasingly radical protests since announcing expansion plans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dynisma’s $2 million rig is state of the art. Just ask Ferrari, which has one for its F1 team. Now a consumer model is in development, we decided to test the ultimate driving simulator. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

FTX has a plan to repay its former crypto customers more than the billions of dollars they lost in the latest bankruptcy proposal. But some will reject it anyway. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Amazon’s newest delivery drones will take off from just outside Phoenix but don't count on rush ordering a fan on a hot day. The fleet can't fly when the temperature exceeds 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a chaotic housing market that has shut many buyers out, fractional home ownership and investing trends are taking off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices