Tag Archives: Wired

Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload

Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced.

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Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks. Its Competitors Have Ideas to Improve It

European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.

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Sale or No Sale, TikTok Will Never Be the Same

TikTok but without the algorithm? TikTok by Meta? A new law this week puts the platform on a death watch—and none of the potential outcomes look great.

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Can’t Afford a House? Buy a Piece of One Instead

In a chaotic housing market that has shut many buyers out, fractional home ownership and investing trends are taking off.

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Google Thinks It Can Cash In on Generative AI. Microsoft Already Has

While both Alphabet and Microsoft boasted strong quarterly earnings, only one tech giant showed that its generative AI bet is starting to pay off.

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Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet

The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.

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Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Crypto’s Role in Child Sexual Abuse

US senators have called for fresh scrutiny of crypto’s role in paying for child sexual abuse imagery online, a problem that they say has worsened.

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TikTok’s Creator Economy Stares Into the Abyss

The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform into an uncertain future.

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Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram

WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta’s social platforms promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend” apps. Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly.

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