Tag Archives: Wired

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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Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play ‘Goat Simulator 3’

These AI agents can adapt to games they haven’t played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots.

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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764

A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

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Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off since 2022. Some who don’t fit the young coder archetype say being more experienced can feel like a disadvantage.

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China’s Best Self-Driving Car Platforms, Tested and Compared

Tesla and General Motors may be struggling with self-driving tech, but the opposite is true in Asia. WIRED tested China’s top three autopilot systems to see just how far ahead they are.

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