By Will Knight Business Jan 23, 2025 1:27 PM OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You The company that kicked off the AI chatbot craze now wants AI to do more than just talk. Illustration: MARK GARLICK/Getty Images OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial intelligence…
By Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer Business Jan 23, 2025 8:00 AM Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Photograph: David Paul Morris/Getty Images If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a…
Kate Knibbs Business Jan 23, 2025 6:30 AM ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images He’s not a famous name…
Steven Levy Business Jan 22, 2025 6:00 PM Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America’s Geek Squad Under Donald Trump, the United States Digital Service is morphing into Elon Musk’s cost-cutting machine. US President Donald Trump signs an executive order regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in the Oval Office of the White House…
Paresh Dave Business Jan 22, 2025 12:27 PM When TikTok Went Dark, an Unlikely App Won After a US law temporarily forced Americans to find a new home for their short-video habit, TikTok clone Likee saw a surge in usage. The social media app, Likee, as shown in the Apple App Store.Photograph: Getty Images Panic…
Kate Knibbs Business Jan 22, 2025 12:00 PM This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin. Photo-Illustration: WIRED…
Andy Greenberg Security Jan 21, 2025 7:49 PM Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community. Members of the Libertarian Party stand in chairs…
By Louise Matsakis Business Jan 21, 2025 5:44 PM How Meta Tried To Lure TikTok Users To Instagram In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting itself as a comparable alternative. TikTok and Instagram logos are seen displayed on phone screens.NurPhoto/Getty Images It…
Joel Khalili Business Jan 20, 2025 2:58 PM The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics When he launched his own cryptocurrency, Donald Trump produced unimaginable wealth from thin air. But it will come at a cost to someone. Photograph: SOPA Images/Getty Images Late Friday evening, three days before his return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump performed…
Makena Kelly Business Jan 20, 2025 11:01 AM RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty A marketing campaign brief obtained by WIRED reveals how the Chinese app is trying to capitalize on its sudden international popularity. The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, known in English as “RedNote” or “Little Red Book.”VCG/Getty…
