https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/ozempic-clothing-sizes-weight-loss-80f9f83d?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1
Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It Tried Hiring High School Grads.
Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/openai-news-corp-strike-deal-23f186ba
Exclusive | Meta Seeks Deals for Exclusive Content From Hollywood for New Virtual-Reality Headset
Tech company is looking to Hollywood for exclusive immersive video for premium device
Drones and ‘Game Film’: Inside Chick-fil-A’s Quest to Make Fast Food Faster
The booming chicken chain aims to reinvent the drive-through process; reducing bottlenecks in the ‘cockpit’
Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI
Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company’s data centers, in first-of-its-kind deal in U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/business/diversity-goals-are-disappearing-from-companies-annual-reports-459d1ef3
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
How Can Bosses Retain Their Best Employees? Ask These Four Questions.
Too often, bosses discover why their stars leave when it’s too late to do anything about it
How Tesla’s Cybertruck Compares With Other Pickups
Elon Musk’s long-awaited electric truck hits the road. See how it stacks up on price, speed and more.
Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments
The vaccine maker, which has partnered with OpenAI since 2023, is rethinking how it does workforce planning thanks to the growing capabilities of AI and other tech
Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent
As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping, retailers are trying to figure out how to market to bots in addition to humans
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going ‘AI-First,’ Yum’s New Tech Chief Says
The fast-food giant’s chief digital and technology officer calls data shared by restaurants ‘secret sauce’ for enabling AI and digital sales
Self-Driving Cars Don’t Do Snow. Goodyear Says the Solution Is Smarter Tires.
Autonomous vehicles are gaining popularity in drier climates, but struggle with knowing when to brake in snowy, icy conditions
Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’
Brands trying to wrest greater control of their narratives are asking for ‘storytelling’ skill sets—without a campfire in sight
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-ai-solve-legacy-tech-problems-companies-are-putting-it-to-the-test-36d9c490
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bayer-microsoft-generative-ai-90754f54
Artificial Intelligence Can Make Companies Greener, but It Also Guzzles Energy
For many, using AI has both positive and negative effects on their carbon emissions and water use
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Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?
The captains of industry that were going to pilot us through new virtual worlds are still around. They're just going by a new name.
This Is What Your Brain Does When You’re Not Doing Anything
When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.
The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.
The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems
With a new framework, researchers believe they could be close to explaining how regularities emerge on macro scales out of systems made up of uncountable constituent parts.
The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.
‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he’s trying to make TikTok better. Is the company’s CEO for real—or just a really good politician?
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules
Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics.
This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
Plantix started with the mission of making farming more environmentally friendly. So how did it end up selling the very products it wanted to fight against?
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.
OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company’s search product lead, to ask how it all works.