Business, Spoken

The arrival of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US offers easy access to the masses. Purists will steer clear. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Carmaker Toyota is developing robots capable of learning to do household chores by observing how humans take on the tasks. The project is an example of robotics getting a boost from generative AI. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new app store from the creator of ChatGPT invites companies to build custom “GPTs” that add functionality to the chatbot. OpenAI isn’t saying how app builders will get paid. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a “free speech” video platform. The nature of the probe remains unknown. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Droughts, heat, and extreme weather are pushing crops to their limits. The race is on to innovate faster than the Earth warms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Autonomous vehicles are operating—and getting into crashes—in US cities. But state laws in Texas, California, Arizona, and other places prevent local governments from regulating the technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Automobiles have gotten much bigger in recent years, alarming road safety experts. The chief engineer at Chrysler’s owner Stellantis says the solution is offering drivers more choice and smarter software. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generative AI companies’ struggles with content moderation, sketchy labor practices, and disinformation show them fighting the same problems that tripped up social platforms before them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than a dozen organizations called on the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Apple for anticompetitive behavior in how it controls messaging, apps, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google’s new AI model Gemini launched inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Social video app Flip is trying to create a social platform dedicated to reviewing and buying products. Some early adopters are cashing in on the app's giveaways—but have questions about its future. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 217-mph, 1,001-hp electrified Lamborghini Revuelto is so much fun it will make you lose the ability to speak properly. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Raising a broad range of concerns into the way X has been run under Elon Musk, EU officials also claimed graphic content of the Hamas attack on Israel had been allowed to spread widely. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2021, more than 13,000 people died in US alcohol-related crashes. The top US road safety regulator is exploring tech in vehicles that could check whether a driver is drunk. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A company working with Tesla’s main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

LinkedIn and OpenAI cofounder Reid Hoffman says he's glad Sam Altman is leading the AI company again. Hoffman and other AI experts discussed the perils and potential of AI at a WIRED event Tuesday. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas. Read the full story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pilots for Amazon’s largest air freight provider voted to strike, complaining of low pay and high turnover. If a strike happens in the new year, Amazon deliveries could be impacted. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More US states are moving to bar companies from binding workers with noncompete agreements. Research shows the move could boost wages and innovation. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices