Business, Spoken

The arrival of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US offers easy access to the masses. Purists will steer clear.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

A new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas. Read the full story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pilots for Amazon’s largest air freight provider voted to strike, complaining of low pay and high turnover. If a strike happens in the new year, Amazon deliveries could be impacted.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More US states are moving to bar companies from binding workers with noncompete agreements. Research shows the move could boost wages and innovation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After crashes, scandals, and SBF’s guilty verdict, many hoped the crypto industry would grow up. Speculation around the arrival of a spot bitcoin ETF shows old hype dies hard.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a rambling interview at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Elon Musk suggested advertisers fleeing X were blackmailing him and could kill the platform.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new approach to geothermal energy makes it possible to tap the energy of hot rocks just about anywhere. A pilot plant in Nevada is now helping to power Google data centers.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The terms the Screen Actors Guild negotiated with Hollywood studios put historic AI guardrails in place, but they may not be able to protect performers.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As smartphone costs fall and society becomes more atomized, China’s elderly are using apps like Douyin to find connection and companionship. Many feel they have no choice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US government is reportedly willing to suspend criminal charges against crypto exchange Binance, provided it steps into line—and pays $4 billion.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

EV production often relies on coal power and harmful labor practices. Climate activists in Squid Games costumes disrupted the LA Auto Show this weekend to demand urgent change.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Industry watchdog Check My Ads is petitioning the Federal Trade Commission to investigate X for unlabeled—and potentially misleading—advertisements.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta, Google, Amazon, and other major tech firms have laid off thousands of people. The public sector has tried—and in some cases, succeeded—to lure them in.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Machine learning algorithms that digested decades of weather data were able to forecast 90 percent of atmospheric measures more accurately than Europe’s top weather center.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Six nuclear reactors just 9 feet across planned for Idaho were supposed to prove out the dream of cheap, small-scale nuclear energy. Now the project has been canceled.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cruise set out to win the autonomous car race by starting with urban driving. After a pedestrian was dragged under a robotaxi, the company and its parent GM are cutting jobs and making other changes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An experimental AI helper attempts to operate a web browser in the same way a human does to take on office admin like processing invoices or screening job applicants.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AI-powered services like LazyApply zip through the grunt work of job applications, helping one programmer apply for 5,000 jobs. But they can make mistakes, and some recruiters scorn the technology.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The troubled coworking company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. WeWork says locations will remain open.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

xAI, Elon Musk’s new company, claims to have built a powerful language model with cutting-edge performance in just two months.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement, health care, and other areas—and to shut down any algorithms doing harm.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US, China, and others signed a declaration coordinated by the UK warning AI could be “catastrophic.” Yet none seem to be suggesting development of the technology should slow down.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Prior to his arrest, the FTX founder did a string of media interviews to tell his side of the story. In the courtroom, those comments came back to haunt him.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Joe Biden’s new executive order is billed as the biggest governmental AI plan ever. Unless he can convince a dysfunctional US Congress and overseas rivals to play along, its effects will be limited.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The ranks of doomsday preppers have swelled since the pandemic, with many stocking up on freeze-dried rations in case things go bad.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Popularity on GitHub can open valuable doors for developers and startups. Underground stores sell “stars” on the platform, offering coders a way to literally fake it till they make it.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Book publishers are experimenting with chatbot editions of new titles, providing "conversational companions" for readers.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices