Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters ( www.wired.com )
US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement ( www.wired.com )
The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...
Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced ( www.wired.com )
Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI ( www.wired.com )
Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light ( www.wired.com )
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results ( www.wired.com )
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google ( www.wired.com )
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? ( www.wired.com )
STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus ( www.wired.com )
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine ( www.wired.com )
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand ( www.wired.com )
YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash ( www.wired.com )
A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces waging war in Gaza and has drawn over 25 million views; its critics have termed the song a violent and hateful...
Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store ( www.wired.com )
The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift ( www.wired.com )
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All ( www.wired.com )
A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video ( www.wired.com )
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers ( www.wired.com )
Apple’s Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave ( www.wired.com )
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI ( www.wired.com )
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them...
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse ( www.wired.com )
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine ( www.wired.com )
A WIRED analysis and one carried out by developer Robb Knight suggest that Perplexity is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots, despite claiming that...
AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think ( www.wired.com )
Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse ( www.wired.com )
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine ( www.wired.com )
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.