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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand
Palantir bros are not hard to encounter online: There are several Palantir-focused subreddits, the largest of which has 109,000 members. Some people on X have been able to amass huge followings by posting exclusively about the company throughout the day.Palantir fans can obsessively focus on the company’s stock price. They…
$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers
After a six-week work trip, Xiayun, an employee at a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley, had landed at her hometown in China for vacation when she saw the news about H-1B visas. On Friday afternoon, US president Donald Trump signed a proclamation saying that any H-1B visa holder’s entry into…
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive the highest property tax exemption as long as it hires the equivalent of 300 “full-time” jobs by 2030, 450 by 2032, 475 by 2033 and 500 by December 31, 2034.Louisiana’s…
Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
My evidence that we're onto something is we've seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten the best deal by far is Reddit. We know from their public filings that last year they got close to $140 million a year from Google and OpenAI.Hmm.If you compare…
Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’
Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical” adult videos, is suing Meta in a federal court in California for allegedly infringing its copyright-protected content and using it to train AI models. The complaint, filed in July, alleges Meta has been torrenting and seeding…
How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells what amounts to a commercialized “Great Firewall” to at least four countries, including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. The groundbreaking…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors and publishers whose books were used to train an early version of…
How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More
In an increasingly divided world, one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that artificial intelligence is a hugely disruptive—and sometimes downright destructive—phenomenon.At WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on Monday, leaders from the worlds of tech, politics, and the media came together to discuss how AI is…
Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World
Another TikTok video Degeling shared with WIRED showed a slow-motion, close-up angle of the bullet hitting Kirk’s neck. The tone of the video was conspiratorial: The user who uploaded it added spooky music and a digitally narrated voice, asking, “What is the black thing on his shirt and why did…
Livestream Replay: WIRED’s Uncanny Valley
With original reporting and sharp analysis, WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast covers today’s biggest stories in tech. We demystify companies like Palantir, trends like vibe coding, and figures like Sam Altman; we break down our essential coverage of DOGE and ICE; we guide listeners through breakthrough innovations like generative AI and…
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