Tag Archives: Wired

What Weight Watchers Offers That Ozempic Can’t

We talk with Sima Sistani, the CEO of Weight Watchers, about applying her previous careers in social media to the company’s efforts to build a digital community.

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Coinbase and Binance Lawsuits Put Crypto on Ice

The SEC has launched two lawsuits in 24 hours, putting a huge question mark over the future of retail crypto trading in the US.

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Apple Ghosts the Generative AI Revolution

Apple unveiled the Vision Pro headset and a number of AI-powered features yesterday, but largely ignored generative AI applications embraced by Google and Microsoft.

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Spoutible’s Low-Budget, Audacious Quest to Be the Next Twitter

When Elon Musk’s reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn’t just go looking for a rival place to post. He joined the crowded race to create one. (It got difficult.)

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Bankrupt Crypto Companies Are Fighting Over a Dwindling Pot of Money

FTX’s liquidator is trying to claw back $4 billion from the estate of Genesis Global Capital, another fallen crypto business.

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India’s Tech Obsession May Leave Millions of Workers Without Pay

The Modi government is forcing low-paid workers to use a glitchy new digital registration system that fails in places with weak internet.

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SEC’s ‘Scathing’ Charges Against Binance Deal a Big Blow to US Crypto

The SEC alleges that the world’s largest crypto exchange and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, lied to regulators and put customers and investors at risk.

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Chegg Embraced AI. ChatGPT Ate Its Lunch Anyway

The education company is a case study in generative AI’s disruptive power. Now it’s trying to prove it can beat back ChatGPT with an in-house chatbot.

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Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

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Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media

The option to choose the algorithms that power your feed is taking off on Bluesky—and there’s a good chance it will catch on elsewhere too.

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