Business, Spoken
2,340 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsGet in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.
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Rimac's Super-Sleek Robotaxi Has More Room Than a Rolls-Royce
July 02, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesThe group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
July 01, 2024 13:06 - 7 minutesWIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
June 28, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesHany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes
June 27, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesThe US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now
June 26, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesMeta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Eternal Truth of Markdown
June 25, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesAn exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
June 24, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesNot too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI
June 21, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesAnthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't Convinced
June 20, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesAfter a user backlash, Adobe has been forced to clarify how it will use creators’ work. But can it be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airbnb's Olympics Push Could Help it Win Over Paris
June 19, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesParis officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia
June 18, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesIn the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI
June 17, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesApple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that's just a hallucination, but it's working. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
June 14, 2024 21:00 - 11 minutesHow China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LinkedIn’s AI Career Coaches Will See You Now
June 14, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesLinkedIn’s new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The $50 Billion Musk Referendum
June 13, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesTesla shareholders will decide whether to back Elon Musk’s leadership—and unprecedented 11-figure bonus—in a pivotal moment for the carmaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It
June 12, 2024 21:00 - 9 minutesThe UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
June 12, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesDanish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Roaring Kitty Is Playing With Fire
June 11, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesInfluencer Keith Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, became a Pied Piper for amateur stock traders after sparking a historic GameStop short squeeze. But his next move could land him in big trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
June 10, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesDays after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
June 09, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesThe hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones
June 08, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesSupposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: Ann McKee Is on a Quest to Save Humanity’s Brains
June 07, 2024 21:00 - 8 minutesThe medical community's leading authority on traumatic brain injuries wants to make contact sports—which she loves—safer for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a ‘Handheld Iron Dome’
June 07, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the Archives: How Hop Nerds Are Saving Your Favorite Beer From Climate Change
June 06, 2024 21:00 - 10 minutesWe're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New. Extreme heat and droughts are cutting into hop plants’ yields and making them less bitter. But scientists and farmers are brewing up clever solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work
June 06, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesGoogle’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco
June 05, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesData on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here
June 04, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesCompanies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gene-Edited Salad Greens Are Coming to US Stores This Fall
June 03, 2024 12:06 - 7 minutesBiotech giant Bayer plans to distribute mustard greens that have been genetically altered to make them less bitter to grocery stores across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Science, Spoken: The Ultra-Efficient Farm of the Future Is in the Sky
June 02, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesWe're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken. Take a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Security, Spoken: A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
May 31, 2024 21:00 - 11 minutesWe're bringing an extra episode from our show Security, Spoken. Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WeWork Survived Bankruptcy. Now It Has to Make Coworking Pay Off
May 31, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesThe troubled company is back from the brink, but will emerge from bankruptcy to a world where coworking's long-term future is much less certain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly
May 30, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutes“Google as an illegal monopolist will have to pay some penalties,” US federal judge James Donato said Thursday, in a hearing discussing next steps after a jury found the company breached antitrust laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From What's New: A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality
May 29, 2024 21:00 - 7 minutesWe're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New. The FDA has yet to approve any drugs for life extension. But biotech company Loyal is now a step closer to bringing one to market—for dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
May 29, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesThanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!
May 28, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesUsing DNA from tangerines and tobacco, food scientists have made a familiar fruit tastier—and more Instagrammable—than ever. We looked into it so you don’t have to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System
May 27, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesIn London, Uber drivers are protesting a new payment system that they say makes it impossible to understand the algorithms that decide how much they get paid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
US Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, Alleging Monopoly Abuse
May 24, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesThe US government has filed an antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly abusing their dominance in the ticketing market to extinguish healthy competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go
May 23, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesA disused church, a school, and a motorcycle garage are among the hyperlocal new coworking spaces cropping up to offer remote workers a place to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies
May 22, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesA new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin And Faked Evidence, Judge Rules
May 21, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesA UK judge has determined that Craig Wright forged evidence in a campaign to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, in a move that prevents him from bringing further lawsuits in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner
May 20, 2024 21:31 - 8 minutesInvestors are interested in buying TikTok so that it can avoid a US ban. But even if ByteDance accepts, a takeover will be far from simple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta Faces Fresh Probe Over 'Addictive' Effect on Kids
May 17, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesThe EU has launched an investigation into Facebook and Instagram's child protection measures as part of mounting concerns around minors’ use of social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Deadspin’s New Owners Reveal Their Plans: Betting Content—but No AI
May 16, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesThe future of once-beloved sports blog Deadspin has been murky since it was acquired by an unknown company called Lineup Publishing in March. The new ownership shared its plans with WIRED. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Astra Is Google's ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
May 15, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesGoogle’s new voice-operated AI assistant, called Astra, can make sense of what your phone’s camera sees. It was announced one day after OpenAI revealed a similar vision for ChatGPT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Climate Protestors Storm Tesla's Gigafactory in Europe
May 14, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesThe carmaker’s only European gigafactory has become the target of increasingly radical protests since announcing expansion plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know
May 13, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesPeople are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We Tried the World’s Most Expensive Racing Simulator
May 10, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesDynisma’s $2 million rig is state of the art. Just ask Ferrari, which has one for its F1 team. Now a consumer model is in development, we decided to test the ultimate driving simulator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FTX Creditors Say Payout Deal Is 'an Insult'—and Plan to Revolt
May 09, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesFTX has a plan to repay its former crypto customers more than the billions of dollars they lost in the latest bankruptcy proposal. But some will reject it anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon’s Delivery Drones Won't Fly in Arizona's Summer Heat
May 08, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesAmazon’s newest delivery drones will take off from just outside Phoenix but don't count on rush ordering a fan on a hot day. The fleet can't fly when the temperature exceeds 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Adam Neumann’s Bid to Buy WeWork Failed. Will He Now Try to Compete With It?
May 07, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesWeWork’s controversial former CEO tried to acquire the bankrupt company he left in crisis. After being rebuffed, Adam Neumann will have to pivot to something new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices