Tag Archives: Wired

Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.

ChatGPT-style chatbots that pretend to be people are being used to help companies develop new product and marketing ideas.

Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—including a service owned by FTX itself.

European commissioner Thierry Breton warned X it could be fined for failing to control disinformation and illegal content. But critics say his threats lack teeth.

A video posted by Donald Trump Jr. showing Hamas militants attacking Israelis was falsely flagged in a Community Note as being years old, thus making X’s disinformation problem worse, not better.

We talk with Michael Casey, the chief content officer of CoinDesk, almost one year after the news site brought down Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire FTX.

When Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange collapsed, customers lost billions of dollars. A New York court will decide whether it was fraud.

X’s Trust and Safety team says it’s working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters.

Meta’s Oversight Board is reviewing Facebook’s decision not to remove a manipulated video posted during the US midterms, in an attempt to get it to clarify its policies on election deepfakes.

Google is analyzing data from its Maps app to suggest how cities can adjust traffic light timing to cut wait times and emissions. The company says it’s already cutting stops for millions of drivers.