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WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community. Hint: It’s a lot of purple hair. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
OpenAI and other AI leaders think new leaps in machine intelligence will require new forms of computer hardware. One proposal involves connecting GPUs with light. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A rare case in Danish court shows how automated clicks and fake accounts can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple Music and Spotify. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and fired an employee—for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh in support of Palestinian people. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The app’s shopping features won over sellers and shoppers by offering deals that can seem too good to be true. Now TikTok is raising sellers fees, which may translate into higher prices. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Apple says the company's grip on iPhone users and developers is blocking future innovation in tech. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.” Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The probes are the first to take place under Europe’s landmark Digital Markets Act—and add to Apple's mounting antitrust woes. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US government's antitrust suit argues that Apple's sticky ecosystem keeps hold of customers by penalizing those who leave. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As Chinese automakers prepare to launch in the US, the White House is investigating whether cars made in China could pose a national security threat. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In an interview with WIRED, the politician behind the ban hits out at Amazon for being evasive about working conditions in its warehouses. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Pav Gill says he suffered retaliation after he raised the alarm about fraud at German payments giant Wirecard. His startup Confide aims to protect future whistleblowers from harm. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
