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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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Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact
Changpeng Zhao, the multibillionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, spent four months last year locked in a federal prison. After US president Donald Trump pardoned Zhao in October, the government has recast him as a martyr.Zhao, who goes by CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to maintain an…
Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
When billionaire Dutch TV producer John de Mol sued Facebook in 2019 over its alleged failure to stop scammers from using his image in deceptive ads, the social media company sent Rob Leathern to Amsterdam to meet with Del Mol’s team and to speak with the media.“The people who push…
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
The email also asks the Zuckerbergs to, “ideally stop—but at a minimum give us extended breaks from—the acquisition, demolition and construction cycle to let the neighborhood recover from the last eight years of disruption.”At this point, the email requests that the family “abide by both the letter and the spirit…
The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy
The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, and they expect that number to keep rising in 2026. The biggest spender last quarter was Microsoft, which put nearly $35…
How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World
TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not…
Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’
Further, that alleged activity can’t even reliably be linked to any Meta employee, Meta claims.Strike 3 “does not identify any of the individuals who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any were employed by Meta or had any role in AI training at Meta, or specify whether (and…
WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos
The thing that gets me, and I'm really curious about your take on this, Brian, as someone with children, that the guides these people that were brought in, they were actually in the room with students helping them with any technological glitches or settling anything that's happening in the real…
China Dives in on the World’s First Wind-Powered Undersea Data Center
The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor
“If you had to point to one reason are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.”Even before the arrival of Truth Predict, the…
People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
Eventually, they claimed that they came to believe that they were “responsible for exposing murderers” and were about to be “killed, arrested, or spiritually executed” by an assassin. They also believed they were under surveillance due to being “spiritually marked” and that they were “living in a divine war” that…
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