Category Archives: Business

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’

WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening signups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.

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AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future

Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company’s burgeoning services business.

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How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google’s Subscription-Only AI Chatbot

Google’s answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google’s new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.

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Google Rebrands Its AI Chatbot as Gemini to Take On ChatGPT

Google is bringing its ChatGPT-style chatbot Bard and some other key AI features under the banner Gemini. A new, more powerful version of the chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is subscription-only.

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Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

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.”

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LinkedIn’s New AI Chatbot Wants to Help You Find Your Next Job

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.

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Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin

Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. But he wants you to know he’s a nice guy.

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