Tag Archives: Wired

Don’t believe everything you read on social media.

As smartphone costs fall and society becomes more atomized, China’s elderly are using apps like Douyin to find connection and companionship. Many feel they have no choice.

India’s next election will be partly decided online. But even before the internet reached the country’s rural regions, divisive videos were distributed using hard drives and laptops.

Major political parties in India are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters, paying for reach and dodging tough questions.

Five days of chaos at OpenAI revealed weaknesses in the company’s self-governance. That worries people who believe AI poses an existential risk and proponents of AI regulation.

In the five days between Sam Altman’s mysterious firing and rehiring as OpenAI’s CEO, multiple companies dropped new artificial intelligence tools.

A letter members of Congress sent to the SEC claims that Musk misled Neuralink investors in a post on X about the fate of monkeys used to test a brain-chip interface.

Developers at smaller companies have been adding new ways to experience the internet with AI assistance. Their visions for the future radically differ.

A self-described Ethereum pioneer says he’s suing his former colleagues over the origins of a piece of crypto infrastructure—and to show how “rotten” the industry has become.

After days of chaos at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the company says it has “in principle” reached an agreement for ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to his post.