Tag Archives: Wired

Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?

Those sounds you hear when you’re alone in a Huddle aren’t canned. They’re uncanny.

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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears

WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.

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EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China

Still the stuff of concepts and flights of fancy in the West, automakers on the other side of the world are putting copters in their cars.

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The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 Mbps

The old broadband standard of 25 Mbps wasn’t cutting it anymore.

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Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation

The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.

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Y Combinator’s Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself

As the influential startup incubator downsizes—and navigates political pushback—managing director Michael Seibel is taking a new role to spend more time working with founders.

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Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.

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Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge Declares

A surprisingly fast ruling at the end of a six-week trial in the UK High Court ends Craig Wright’s campaign to be recognized as the inventor of Bitcoin.

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Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of industry compensation.

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Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?

When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit. Is the web’s most reliably human forum a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?

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