Category Archives: Business

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos

The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video generation model.

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Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

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Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley’s history and future.

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Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat

After Sinclair and Nexstar pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air, the old affiliate model looks shakier than ever. Even Disney might do better without broadcast.

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Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors

After five deadline extensions and several rounds of negotiations, President Trump signed an executive order to put TikTok’s US operations in the hands of Oracle and other American investors.

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Amazon Will Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Suit That Alleged ‘Dark Patterns’ in Prime Sign-Ups

Amazon will pay both the Federal Trade Commission and consumers directly to settle a lawsuit alleging that it used manipulative and deceptive tactics to encourage sign-ups for Prime.

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WIRED’s Politics Issue Cover Is in a City Near You

We turned 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 them. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)

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Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market

For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.

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Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

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This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw

A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious injuries.

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