I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
“We don’t take ID or anything. So long as you look over 18, we scan your iris,” said Ana Howard, the contractor hired to lead onboarding...
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of...
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
“I think there are unanswered questions about whether these effects would hold outside of the election environment, whether they would hold in an election where Donald...
More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week...
Israel’s Tech Companies Are Fighting Netanyahu—or Leaving the Startup Nation
Wix says it’s staying. “We’ll stay here and fight for what’s right,” Nir Zohar, co-founder and chief operations officer, told WIRED in an interview in May....
Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
“If you look back at Meta’s history, we’ve been a huge proponent of open source,” he says, pointing to the example of PyTorch, a popular tool...
The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
A fleet of robot ships bobs gently in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, somewhere between Bahrain and Qatar, maybe 100 miles off the coast...
Mykhailo Fedorov Is Running Ukraine’s War Against Russia Like a Startup
“The defense forces and the startup communities are different worlds,” Nataliia Kushnerska, Brave1’s project lead, says. “In this project, everybody receives what they need. The general...
X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter
The company also has a fundamental trust issue. In December, it leaked its own internal documents to selected journalists—branding it as the “Twitter Files,” a move...