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2,284 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 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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Semiconductor Giant ASML Has a New Boss, and a Big Problem
April 24, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesEuropean chip machine-maker ASML is at the center of US-China trade tensions. Its new chief executive now faces a daunting political juggling act. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
April 23, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesThe world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3
April 22, 2024 10:22 - 7 minutesThe open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tesla’s Layoffs Won’t Solve Its Growing Pains
April 19, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesThe car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Luxury Airbnb High-Rises Are Reshaping Miami’s Skyline
April 18, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesAirbnb is encouraging developers to build condo towers purposefully designed to be listed for short-term rentals. Units are selling fast in Miami and coming soon to other US cities. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession
April 17, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesIt’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crypto FOMO Is Back. So Are the Scams
April 16, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesAfter cryptocurrency prices spiked, scammers have flooded the market with fake tokens that promise investors great riches, but leave them penniless. It's working. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Found Liable for Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud
April 15, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesWhen Do Kwon’s crypto empire fell to pieces, tens of billions of dollars were wiped out. A civil jury in the US has found he lied to investors. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs
April 12, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesSome businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets
April 11, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesUnder threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI-enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired
April 10, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesThe app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress and Tumblr. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
April 09, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesBy becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People
April 08, 2024 14:04 - 8 minutesWIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community. Hint: It’s a lot of purple hair. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
April 05, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesOpenAI and other AI leaders think new leaps in machine intelligence will require new forms of computer hardware. One proposal involves connecting GPUs with light. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem
April 04, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesA rare case in Danish court shows how automated clicks and fake accounts can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple Music and Spotify. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apple Store Employees Say Coworkers Were Disciplined for Supporting Palestinians
April 03, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesA protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and fired an employee—for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh in support of Palestinian people. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TikTok Shop’s Era of Super Subsidies Is Ending
April 02, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesThe app’s shopping features won over sellers and shoppers by offering deals that can seem too good to be true. Now TikTok is raising sellers fees, which may translate into higher prices. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
April 01, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesA US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Antitrust Case Against Apple Argues It Has a Stranglehold on the Future
March 29, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesThe Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Apple says the company's grip on iPhone users and developers is blocking future innovation in tech. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Science of Crypto Forensics Survives a Court Battle—for Now
March 28, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesA jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here Comes the Flood of Plug-In Hybrids
March 27, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesNew US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The EU Targets Apple, Meta, and Alphabet for Investigations Under New Tech Law
March 26, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesThe probes are the first to take place under Europe’s landmark Digital Markets Act—and add to Apple's mounting antitrust woes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Case Against Apple Weaponizes the Cult of Cupertino
March 25, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesThe US government's antitrust suit argues that Apple's sticky ecosystem keeps hold of customers by penalizing those who leave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
March 22, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesAravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here's Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
March 21, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesOpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules
March 20, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesYouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
March 19, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesWIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What’s Behind the Bitcoin Price Surge? Vibes, Mostly
March 18, 2024 13:07 - 11 minutesThe price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
March 15, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesStartups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play Goat Simulator 3
March 14, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesThese AI agents can adapt to games they haven’t played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok
March 13, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesEarlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras
March 12, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesStarting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
March 11, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesOn Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Fear That Inspired the Creation of OpenAI
March 08, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesEmails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators
March 07, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutesOpen source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways
March 06, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesAs Chinese automakers prepare to launch in the US, the White House is investigating whether cars made in China could pose a national security threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Breach of Contract
March 05, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesIn the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here Come the AI Worms
March 04, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutesSecurity researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started
March 01, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesGoogle apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament
February 29, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesIn an interview with WIRED, the politician behind the ban hits out at Amazon for being evasive about working conditions in its warehouses. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The US Supreme Court Holds the Future of the Internet in Its Hands
February 28, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesIf the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He Helped Expose Wirecard's Fraud. Now His Startup Tries to Make Whistleblowing Safer
February 27, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesPav Gill says he suffered retaliation after he raised the alarm about fraud at German payments giant Wirecard. His startup Confide aims to protect future whistleblowers from harm. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian
February 26, 2024 11:42 - 8 minutesOnly one of Reddit's two cofounders is named in a new filing that puts the company weeks away from going public. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, now CEO, fell out in 2020. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos
February 23, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutesOpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutesBefore it disappeared on Tuesday, Kimi enabled iPhone owners to stream illegal bootlegs of popular movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This Tiny Website Is Google’s First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars
February 21, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutesTDCommons is a free space for inventors to lay claim to breakthroughs without having to file a patent. Why is it so off the radar? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Google’s Flagship AI Model Gets a Mighty Fast Upgrade
February 20, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutesJust two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin
February 19, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutesIn a lengthy cross-examination in the UK High Court, Craig Wright rejected all claims he had forged and manipulated evidence that indicate he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes
February 16, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesAI fakes are a disinformation menace. But some politicians, executives, and academics see them as a way to extend their reach. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory
February 15, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices