This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human
In late April a video ad for a new AI company went viral on X. A person stands before a billboard in San Francisco, smartphone extended,...
French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election
“Then on the other extreme, [the left-wing New Popular Front] have been so vocal about all the taxation measures they want to bring back that it...
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping...
OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the artificial intelligence model behind the bot...
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
Some Fortune 500 companies have begun testing software that can spot a deepfake of a real person in a live video call, following a spate of...
Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
A group of six activists disrupted the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to protest Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google’s $1.2 billion cloud...
Welcome to WIRED Travel
Hello, and welcome to WIRED Travel, WIRED’s new destination for coverage of all things transportation, aviation, vacation, and more. Of course, innovations in travel technology, from...
Rimac Verne Robotaxi: prices, availability, specs
The Rimac Group describes Verne, its new autonomous ride-hailing service, as its “next impossible thing.” First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electric hypercar company in Croatia,...
Microsoft Faces EU Charges Over ‘Abusive’ Bundling
Brussels has accused Microsoft of illegally abusing its dominance in the business-software market at the expense of smaller rivals, following a complaint at the height of...