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...
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...
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed to be the decisions of the...
Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Battlefield Data
Instead, Ukraine wants to use the data that’s being gathered for its own defense sector. “After the war has finished, Ukraine companies will go to the...
A Crypto Micronation’s Future Hangs on a Border Dispute
Shooed away, the Liberty parked up on the opposite riverbank, on the Serbian side, just outside Liberland territory. Its passengers disembarked on a makeshift ramp made...
The FTC plans to slap companies with hefty fines for using fake reviews
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a formal ban on fake reviews and testimonials. Companies would also be prohibited from using phony followers and views...
Porto Digital Is the Quixotic Tech Hub That Actually Worked
Cristiano Lincoln Mattos, CEO and cofounder at Tempest, which also spun out of Cesar, attributes the very existence of his company to the ecosystem’s ability to...