By Paresh Dave Business Dec 23, 2024 12:49 PM How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.” Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images On a recent Monday in the West Bank, human…
By Kate Crawford Business Dec 23, 2024 4:00 AM AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence. Illustration: Carmen Casado In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This will…
Paresh Dave Business Dec 21, 2024 9:15 AM Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images If…
Jeremy White Gear Dec 21, 2024 9:30 AM The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Ford/Getty…
Will Knight Business Dec 20, 2024 1:00 PM OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox…
Lauren Goode Business Dec 20, 2024 12:24 PM I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping Chatbots aren’t very good at picking gifts, but that didn’t stop me from burning the planet in a quest for the perfect baking equipment. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images One of the promises of the next era of…
By Gary Marcus Business Dec 20, 2024 4:00 AM Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer. Illustration: Igor Bastidas Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with…
By Kate Knibbs Business Dec 19, 2024 1:41 PM Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress. Illustration: Allie Sullberg In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a…
Joel Khalili Business Dec 19, 2024 12:03 PM Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Photograph: Dan Kitwood; Getty Images Craig Wright,…
Caroline Haskins Business Dec 19, 2024 11:47 AM Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters Thousands of Amazon workers at seven warehouses are striking on Thursday, just days…
