Category Archives: Business

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank

One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.”

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AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.

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The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs

Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars.

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Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

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.

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OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills

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.

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I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping

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.

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Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer.

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Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

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.

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Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims

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.

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Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush

Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.

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