… Oppo declined to share more information with WIRED. OnePlus did not respond to requests for comment. When asked if OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei, who left in 2020 to start the smartphone company Nothing, would care to comment, a Nothing spokesperson declined. …
… Microsoft and Affirm declined to comment. …
… Online publishers, which Google pulls data from for its AI summaries, may struggle to stay in business if a large chunk of citations simply circle users back to Google’s sites. “How is that beneficial to the web?” asks Oberstein. …
… Rank One declined to comment for this story. …
… The CFTC declined WIRED’s requests for comment about Adventure One QSS’s setup and whether it fulfills the terms of the agreement. Polymarket declined to comment. …
… The integration is happening at a scale bigger than many viewers realize, Matt Belloni, a founding partner at Puck who covers the business of Hollywood, told WIRED earlier this month. Since 2000, sex scenes in movies have declined by 40 percent, according to a 2023 study conducted by The Economist. …
… But, “moving forward, we are returning to business as usual and giving people the agency to apply to roles that interest them,” Saba wrote. …
… Waymo and Uber are business partners, with Uber offering exclusive access to driverless Waymo rides through its app in Atlanta and Austin. But evidence of a strained relationship has leaked into public in past months, as Business Insider has reported. …
… At the same time, employees feel that everyone is seemingly being subjected to ruthless scrutiny and internal performance-tracking. …
… Meta declined to comment for this story. …