Category Archives: Business

Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug

As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medication injected daily instead of weekly.

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

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Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots

Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.

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Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise

A new system that combines Gemini’s coding abilities with an evolutionary approach  improves datacenter scheduling, chip design, and fine-tune large language models.

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Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode

CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

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GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs

General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.

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A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million

The largest holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have secured spots at a private event with the US president himself. WIRED tracked how they did it.

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Two Men Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office

The men appeared at the US Copyright Office days after after the Trump administration fired its leader, who had just published a report about the use of copyrighted materials for AI training.

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Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia

As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.

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My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash

Earlier this year, a hacker used my X account to hawk a fraudulent WIRED-branded crypto coin. After they pulled the rug on investors, I faced the aftermath.

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