Big deal if true for people who change their last names at marriage or in gender transition. Long demanded feature internally and externally 9to5google.com/2025/12/24/g...

The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit was a signature piece of the company's response to the Black Lives Matter protests. Has it dismantled systemic barriers to opportunity as Apple intended? It's certainly made progress, but there are some lessons. My investigation: www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Deadline missed: www.axios.com/2025/12/15/m...

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Has ChatGPT coined any now-widely popular jargon yet? I'm thinking something like the human constructs "officer-involved shooting" or "open-air drug market"

Google's crawler for search and Gemini training sees 3.2 times more web data than OpenAI's crawler and even more than Microsoft and others, according to Cloudflare's Matthew Price revealing the new stat at @wired.com's #WIREDBigInterview event. He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.

NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too. don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:

A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

She wasn't the only one www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

Even troops are struggling to get a right to repair www.wired.com/story/subscr...

Adding to the New York Times' big unveil last week of Jeff Bezos' new AI company Project Prometheus, we reveal an acquihire and that two Transformers paper authors are founding advisors www.wired.com/story/jeff-b...

Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million. www.wired.com/story/micron...

A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social

Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...

A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.” www.wired.com/story/smuggl...

"I worry a little bit about paternalism around the narrative of slop. We need to be looking at this new medium as raising the floor of what could be created before and giving minimum access to people who didn’t have access before." www.wired.com/story/fidji-...

"Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: 'Time spent is, I can tell you, not on any of the dashboards that I look at. It’s just not a main consideration.'" open.substack.com/pub/sourcesn...

And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...

Expedia’s app for ChatGPT provides real-time flight and hotel pricing data in response to user queries. Users must still manually make bookings—no AI agents are involved yet. But the feature is leading to greater sales than Expedia anticipated. www.wired.com/story/inside...

Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology. www.wired.com/story/bradle...

Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI! I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.

The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition. www.wired.com/story/open-a...

Any SF Bay Area tech companies with in-office requirements excusing employees from coming in tomorrow because of the storm? Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.

"We're a metro office where we have to pay for parking, and our parking is like $10 to $15 a day, and it's really starting to add up for employees. And we do have employees that have been embarrassed to come to me and say that they can't afford to come to work" www.wired.com/story/social...

Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI. www.wired.com/story/google...

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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

As far as we can tell, this is what Mace was pissed off about and what precipitated the incident (it was a grey/silver BMW, not a white one like her team said it would be) www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Who had Waymo running over a cat before a human? www.sfgate.com/local/articl...