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Lauren Goode: It sounds like you're a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the junior college in Palo Alto in terms of being a liberaltarian.Michael Calore: No, I go further left than that, I would…

No question about it: Nadella’s Microsoft is a triumph. Finally, in the 2020s, Microsoft has centered on the most innovative tech since the PC itself. And though revenues from AI products haven’t begun to offset Microsoft’s huge…

Unlike other robots, Proxie’s battery can be swapped out to avoid downtime charging. Cobot declined to say how much Proxie costs to buy or lease, but mobile robots often cost tens of thousands of dollars a piece.The robots work alongside…

Neither would be simple. The Sexypedia had withstood other attempts to remove the site, including one by its original owner after they left. Fandom received multiple takedown requests, but community members pointed the finger at a YouTube…

The more certain short-term impact is that US investors who are still interested in Chinese AI startups will have to do a whole lot more due diligence. The Treasury Department is not setting up a new government committee like CFIUS that…

Substack does not have an official policy governing the use of AI. One of Substack’s cofounders, Hamish McKenzie, has described the generative AI boom as a sea change that writers will need to confront, regardless of their personal views on…

After more than 1,200 days of silence, Li Ziqi, arguably the most successful internet influencer from China on YouTube, is suddenly posting videos again.Earlier this week, the 34-year-old content creator, who is best-known for sharing…

“For those of you who want Election Night to feel even more unhinged, I highly recommend elections.omg.lol.” That's WIRED senior editor Andrew Couts talking about a single-serving site with a three-by-three grid of nine YouTube embeds, each…

Group chats on Towns can be configured in such a way that only people who fulfill certain criteria—who have specific expertise, say—are allowed to post messages, while everyone else watches from the sidelines. In this scenario, Rubin hopes,…

Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential dangers ignited by the consequences of computer systems. His…