Business, Spoken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

The US government's antitrust suit argues that Apple's sticky ecosystem keeps hold of customers by penalizing those who leave. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

Google's answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices