Business, Spoken

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A chatbot interface on LinkedIn tries to speed up job searches by offering advice such as an assessment of how well a job opening matches a person's skills.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will in future be labeled as artificial. But only if they are made using tools from companies willing to work with Meta.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The skyrocketing value of cryptocurrency is the center of a disagreement over the FTX bankruptcy.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As interest rates and antitrust pressure climbed in 2023, Alphabet made no major acquisitions for the first time in years. Apple, Amazon, and Meta also curbed dealmaking.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces an uncertain future after its leader departed this month.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In his new book Read Write Own, investor Chris Dixon mounts a defense of blockchain, arguing it can save society from the monopoly power of tech giants.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As the US and other countries ponder how to prevent dangerous uses of AI, some researchers suggest building limitations into crucial chips like GPUs to cap the power of algorithms.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that’s similar to Apple’s App Store.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections in Moldova, according to new research.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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