Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
…When he took over as CEO in 2011, the company’s market capitalization was around $350 billion; it is now north of $4 trillion. More than 2.5 billion people around the…
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The WIRED Gear Team’s Tips on Ways to Save Money
…Focus on your time horizon instead, and ignore the swings in the market. “The wiser step is to ignore it as noise and realize that this is someone else's problem, not…
Sony’s PS5 Price Hikes Prove This Console Generation Is Far From Over. Good.
…At the same time, players who weren’t won over at a console’s launch have a cheaper entry point and years of games to catch up on. But this generation has…
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…I really think that it should have given up a long time ago.” Meta is rejiggering its VR efforts to be more competitive with companies working on VR. There is the Steam…
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
…OpenAI released its first “reasoning” model in 2024, where the chatbot needed “thinking” time. The company described this release at the time as “a new series of AI models designed to spend…
I Tried to Offset Horrible Heating Bills With a Bitcoin Miner
…Heatbit cofounder Alex Busarov noted that when the first-generation Heatbit launched, it was during terrible times for bitcoin. But in a bear market, he said, “it paid for itself in two…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop
…I have spent more time in airports in the last three days than I care to admit. Brian Barrett: You told me yesterday that you were excited to be flying out of…
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…Savvy technical engineers have also found a lucrative market niche installing OpenClaw for other people. One person told MIT Technology Review that he has installed the AI agent over 7,000 times…
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
…The goal, according to a staffer from SM4, the influencer marketing agency running the campaign on behalf of Build American AI, is to subtly shift public debate by framing China’s AI…
MyMove Is the US Government’s Shittiest Website
…Matthews and his wife, Virginia Salazar, formed a company called Targeted Marketing Solutions and began cold-calling the postal service with a proposal: a public-private partnership where they would update and…