Category Archives: Business

Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There’s little they can do to rein in the rip-offs.

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.

Apple crushed Beeper Mini, an app that let Android users into Apple’s iMessage service. Beeper cofounder Eric Migicovsky says interoperability between Big Tech’s walled gardens is urgently needed.

​​Chatbots’ habit of spewing untruths is a big problem—but we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.

Boston Dynamic’s legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company’s founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.

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.

The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change?

The Steamboat Willie version of Disney icon Mickey Mouse just entered the public domain, and there’s already an explosion of related AI-generated art. We talked to some of the creators behind it.

In her new book The Algorithm, journalist Hilke Schellmann investigates software that automates résumé screening and promotion recommendations, raising concerns about discrimination.

From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it.