Category Archives: Business

WIRED’s Politics Issue Cover Is Coming to a City Near You

We’re turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here’s how to find it. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)

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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

A fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive model to train another model for less.

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Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t

Donald Trump claimed victory on a deal that would put TikTok in the hands of his allies after a call with Xi Jinping. But details on the agreement—and Beijing’s buy-in—remain murky.

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YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang

On its 20th anniversary, YouTube is venturing into an era of AI-generated video, and may never be the same.

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Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

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Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here

Today on Uncanny Valley, we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what that means for us non-robots.

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Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal

Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker.

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China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon

As Washington pushes for a TikTok deal, Beijing is countering with probes into American chipmakers.

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Jensen Huang Has Gone Nano Bananas!

The Nvidia CEO reveals his consuming love for Google’s image generator, the artsy side of Grok, and what exactly he uses Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT for right now.

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