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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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WIRED Roundup: Satellites Data Leak, Cybertrucks, Politicized Federal Workers
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I mean, I was talking to someone before these recent layoffs who'd worked at the CDC previously and had been pretty involved in efforts to study the impact of certain diseases or pandemics specifically on pregnant populations, and this person had told me a while ago, that…
Google Has a Bedbug Infestation in Its New York Offices
Google employees working at the company’s Chelsea campus in New York City received a notice on Sunday alerting them to a possible bedbug outbreak at the office. Exterminators arrived at the scene with a sniffer dog “and found credible evidence of their presence,” according to an email obtained by WIRED.…
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all.A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to…
New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable.In…
Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI
Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the janitors mopping in their wake)—deep down at the level of the code, you saw craftsmanship so obsessive that…
Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire
Over the past five years, criminals behind widespread romance and investment scams—often inelegantly referred to as “pig butchering”—have stolen tens of billions from people around the world. Now law enforcement has carried out one of its biggest operations yet against that sprawling scam industry, targeting the operators of several modern…
A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved
A sweeping plan to reconstruct Gaza, which has been shared with Trump administration officials, features the names and logos of more than two dozen companies—some of which tell WIRED they had no knowledge they were named or involved.The presentation outlining the plan was reportedly created by some of the businessmen…
Google Search Could Change Forever in the UK
Google may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s competition authority.In a decision handed down on Friday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated Google…
‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being coordinated with the US government, are part of a broader push to give national leaders more…
Inside Intel’s Hail Mary to Reclaim Chip Dominance
After four years of construction, Intel said on Thursday that its Fab 52 semiconductor plant in Chandler, Arizona, is now turning out its first chips. The company also shared more details about the long-awaited CPUs that it will be producing in the facility using Intel’s brand-new 18A process technology.The announcement…
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