Category Archives: Business

How Candise Lin Became the Unofficial Ambassador of Chinese Internet Culture

Long before TikTok refugees discovered Red Note, Candise Lin was giving Americans a portal into the wild, hilarious world of Chinese social media.

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DOGE’s Misplaced War on Software Licenses

DOGE claims that a government agency has nearly three times as many software licenses as employees. Experts say there are plenty of good reasons for that.

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Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

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The SEC Is Abandoning Its Biggest Crypto Lawsuits

Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict.

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Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’

Big Tech’s restrictions on adult content are crippling businesses and organizations focused on sexual health, according to a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.

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Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

Internally called Orion, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, and it’s only available through the company’s $200 monthly ChatGPT subscription.

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Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.

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A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.

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This Refinery Wants to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream. Trump’s Cuts Could Kill It

A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be “dead in the water.”

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