Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO
Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.
Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as “great news”, and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses
- TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US. — The deal, a US joint venture …
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips
The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. … Nvidia is kicking off 2026 …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs
Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more
and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. www.wired.com/story/alphaf...
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges
www.wired.com/story/apple-... Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Apple's App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It? BeauHD / Slashdot : Apple's App Course Runs $20,000 a St...
Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more
WIRED spoke with DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project … Bluesky: @wired.com Bluesky: @wired.com : WIRED ...
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps.
Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon's Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses … Bluesky: @wired.com Bluesky: @wired.com...
Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn …
A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, a creator using Midjourney, Flux, Runway, and other AI tools to create a sci-fi cinematic universe
Christopher Beam / Wired : X: @jcbeam . Bluesky: @dmnd.me and @wired.com . Threads: @giddycat Forums: r/aiwars , r/midjourney , and r/NeuralViz See also Mediagazer X: Chris Beam /...
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, streaming, paying out $10B, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He'd rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that. Bluesky: @vortexegg.com and...
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases …
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots
Atlas, Boston Dynamics' dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
A new policy document from seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030
A new policy document outlines China's plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years …
A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming
A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage. The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections
Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/roblox... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : Talked to Roblox's chief safety officer Matt Kaufman about their new age verification syste...