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Read MoreAfter Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry
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Read MoreThis New Tech Puts AI In Touch With Its Emotions—and Yours
Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreAn AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job
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Read MoreThe World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town
A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.” Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreWhy AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris
Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreAn Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast
The YC-backed startup NetworkOcean plans to sink GPUs into San Francisco Bay. Multiple California regulators WIRED spoke with hadn’t heard about the test—and raised concerns about its potential environmental impact. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreApple Must Pay $14.4 Billion to Ireland in Crackdown on ‘Sweetheart Deals’
The European Court of Justice has ordered Apple to pay billions in back taxes to Ireland, in a move that hands a victory to the European Commission against so-called “sweetheart deals” between the country and big tech companies. Powered by WPeMatico
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