The Digital Signature

Tesla and General Motors may be struggling with self-driving tech, but the opposite is true in Asia. WIRED tested China’s top three autopilot systems to see just how far ahead they are.

The price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial.

In June 2023, the cofounder of “Russia’s Google” landed on the EU sanctions list. Now, he’s free to build again.

Get-rich-quick hustlers say it’s a great time to push AI-generated kids videos on YouTube. WIRED found some channels targeting children that appear to be already embracing the technology.

Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.

Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.

Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more helpful in the physical world.

Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now he’s head of trust and safety at dating giant Match Group, owner of Tinder, Hinge, and more.

Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.