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This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics

2025-04-02 11:00:00                wired.com

The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still deeply uncertain.

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Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free

2025-04-01 21:32:28                wired.com

It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.

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The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums

2025-04-01 16:29:52                wired.com

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

2025-04-01 09:00:00                wired.com

The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy.

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USPTO suspended xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to "Grok" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

2025-04-01 02:05:01                wired.com

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: USPTO suspended xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to “Grok”  —  Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.

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DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show

2025-04-01 00:06:27                wired.com

The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer

2025-03-31 20:12:10                wired.com

The news follows the breakout success of DeepSeek and growing pressure from rivals like Meta.

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Amazon's AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents

2025-03-31 13:00:18                wired.com

Led by a former OpenAI executive, Amazon’s AI lab focuses on the decisionmaking capabilities of next-generation software agents—and borrows insights from physical robots.

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Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley

2025-03-31 10:30:00                wired.com

Canada’s top tech talent has long moved to the US for better opportunities, but Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats are raising questions about how to build a stronger ecosystem at home.

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Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’

2025-03-31 09:30:00                wired.com

Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.

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Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

2025-03-28 22:35:37                wired.com

Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk's AI startup xAI.

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Anthropic's Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

2025-03-28 14:00:00                wired.com

Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.

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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

2025-03-28 10:00:00                wired.com

The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

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How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints (Sheon Han/Wired)

2025-03-28 04:00:49                wired.com

Sheon Han / Wired: How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints  —  Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv.  Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go.

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Unpacking ‘Good Quests,’ Christianity, and Caviar Bumps

2025-03-27 20:16:28                wired.com

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts ask what impact religion will have on Silicon Valley.

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Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China

2025-03-27 14:10:45                wired.com

As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

2025-03-27 10:00:00                wired.com

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world (Claire L. Evans/Wired)

2025-03-27 05:25:46                wired.com

Claire L. Evans / Wired: A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world  —  One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode.  For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm …

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How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

2025-03-26 16:00:00                wired.com

Challenging the world's most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself.

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I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me

2025-03-26 10:30:00                wired.com

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

2025-03-26 10:00:00                wired.com

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

2025-03-26 10:00:00                wired.com

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

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Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach to boost LLM performance without requiring labeled data, available now to customers (Will Knight/Wired)

2025-03-26 05:40:03                wired.com

Will Knight / Wired: Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach to boost LLM performance without requiring labeled data, available now to customers  —  Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don't have squeaky clean data.

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A look at the origins of RISC architecture, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and RISC's lasting impact, as its increasing global adoption risks US companies' dominance (Jason Kehe/Wired)

2025-03-26 03:55:03                wired.com

Jason Kehe / Wired: A look at the origins of RISC architecture, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and RISC's lasting impact, as its increasing global adoption risks US companies' dominance  —  “RISC architecture is gonna change everything.”  Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago.

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Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

2025-03-25 20:00:11                wired.com

Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don’t have squeaky clean data.

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Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data

2025-03-25 15:34:53                wired.com

As the Trump administration continues its efforts to slash the US federal workforce, the team responsible for publishing data used in advanced research in astrophysics, nuclear fusion, and other fields appears to be on the chopping block.

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‘Over 1 Million’ People Wanted a Cybertruck. Where Are They?

2025-03-25 10:30:00                wired.com

“Demand is off the charts!” Elon Musk crowed at the end of 2023, citing more than a million reservations for Tesla's polarizing polygonic pickup—so why has it still sold less than 50,000?

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RISC Architecture Really Did Change Everything

2025-03-25 10:00:00                wired.com

“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.

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How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe

2025-03-24 20:51:59                wired.com

DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data.

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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI

2025-03-24 10:00:00                wired.com

We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.

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Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

2025-03-24 10:00:00                wired.com

Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.

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The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

2025-03-24 10:00:00                wired.com

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

2025-03-24 10:00:00                wired.com

Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.

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Quantum Computing Is Dead. Long Live Quantum Computing!

2025-03-24 10:00:00                wired.com

Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead at the same time. Ironically enough, so is quantum computing.

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A survey of 730 software engineers: 75% have tried AI, 35.6% are AI optimists and 38.4% pessimists, freelance coders use AI more, 50% pay for AI tools, and more (Wired)

2025-03-24 07:15:01                wired.com

Wired: A survey of 730 software engineers: 75% have tried AI, 35.6% are AI optimists and 38.4% pessimists, freelance coders use AI more, 50% pay for AI tools, and more  —  We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job.  The results amazed and disturbed us.

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Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

2025-03-24 06:00:00                wired.com

Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.

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OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

2025-03-23 10:00:00                wired.com

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in "building mode", AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

2025-03-22 19:25:01                wired.com

Steven Levy / Wired: An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in “building mode”, AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more  —  Even as Yahoo turns 30, CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is still in “building mode.”

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A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

2025-03-22 11:00:00                wired.com

Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

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The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters

2025-03-22 10:30:00                wired.com

The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.

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Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

2025-03-21 14:00:00                wired.com

Even as Yahoo turns 30, CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is still in “building mode.”

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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

2025-03-21 10:30:00                wired.com

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

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Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI

2025-03-21 10:00:00                wired.com

The search giant should’ve been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn’t. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.

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Who's Elon Musk’s Biggest Fan? His Mom

2025-03-20 17:37:18                wired.com

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we tell you everything you need to know about Maye Musk.

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Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue

2025-03-20 16:12:08                wired.com

Tesla says it will fix the sticky issue—which could cause panels to detach from trucks while driving—with a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”

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A Livestreamed Tragedy on X Sparks a Memecoin Frenzy

2025-03-20 14:35:29                wired.com

When a young man from California broadcast his death on X, profit-hungry traders piled into a cryptocurrency created in his image.

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OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

2025-03-19 16:00:00                wired.com

The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.

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Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data

2025-03-19 15:27:27                wired.com

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel to bolster the AI training data used by the chip maker's customers and developers.

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DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread

2025-03-17 10:00:00                wired.com

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

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Designer Ray-Ban Metas, An EV to Mock Tesla, and Portable Pizzas—Here’s Your Gear News of the Week

2025-03-15 10:00:00                wired.com

Plus: iRobot unveils its new robo vacs, JBL pimps its most beloved speakers, a bright future for TCL TVs, and more.