Tag Archives: Wired

Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down

The Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against some of the industry’s major players, raising questions over crypto’s future.

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Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots

By shutting off its free API, the social network will stop researchers from getting access to crucial data to track hate speech and disinformation.

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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine

The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Will it make the world safer?

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India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet

The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in.

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How to Survive If You Were Part of the Tech Layoffs

Big Tech has gotten much smaller over the past few months. If you got a pink slip and you’re planning your next move, we have tips to help.

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News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot’s Media Diet

Microsoft’s new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining media business models.

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Down the Chatbot Rabbit Hole

The founder of social Q&A site Quora is experimenting with Poe, an app that answers questions using AI. What role is left for people?

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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret

Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.

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My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot

Microsoft’s chatty search interface was impressive. But it also served up glitches, ethical dilemmas—and talk of a mysterious “Sydney.”

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The Chatbot Search Wars Have Begun

Microsoft, Google, and China’s Baidu all showed off ChatGPT-inspired technology to reinvent web search this week.

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