The Trump administration is likely to make big changes to US federal electric vehicle incentive programs. Buy or lease now, probably.

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Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: A UK CMA report finds that Apple’s policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems  —  Apple’s restrictions on mobile browsers are limiting innovation and holding back new features that could benefit iPhone users …

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks  —  Big Tech group’s president calls on new US administration to take tougher approach on state-sponsored cyber attacks

Yuki Furukawa / Bloomberg: Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia plans its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on December 18 and sets its indicative IPO price at about $9 per share to raise ~$180M  —  – Former Toshiba memory unit nears listing after multiple delays  — Company needs to invest more to catch up to Samsung in NAND

Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control traffic in a congested city could help motorists reach their destinations faster, while improving safety or sustainability. Unfortunately, teaching an AI system to make […]

In the mid 2000s, Catherine Wolfram PhD ’96 reached what she calls “an inflection point” in her career. After about a decade of studying U.S. electricity markets, she had come to recognize that “you couldn’t study the energy industries without thinking about climate mitigation,” as she puts it. At the same time, Wolfram understood that […]

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In 2025, you will be able to recreate full Formula 1 Grands Prix in your living room, complete with Lego cars, drivers, and garages.

Woven polyethylene looks like tangled fishing line but delivers superior airflow for a firm mattress.

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn’t sell very well  —  Google is pulling the plug on its next Pixel Tablet, citing fears the product wouldn’t sell very well.  —  •  —  TL;DR

The Information: Sources: OpenAI considered making a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others  —  OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assault on Google.  —  The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16  —  – Company is working on overhaul that employees call ‘LLM Siri’  — Unveiling planned for next year, with rollout coming in […]

The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What about AI-generated trees? They probably wouldn’t make a sound, but they will be critical nonetheless for applications such as […]

As young children, how do we build our vocabulary? Even by age 1, many infants seem to think that if they hear a new word, it means something different from the words they already know. But why they think so has remained subject to inquiry among scholars for the last 40 years. A new study […]

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AI-powered processes can find and use every shred of information that’s applicable to a patient, creating more effective and responsive care.

If the capabilities of AI systems continue to evolve, the technology will radically alter how companies stay ahead of new challengers.

More and more Americans are getting their news from influencers on the internet.

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: The Trump administration’s promises of mass deportations may lead to increased use of spyware like Graphite; ICE has a $2M contract with Graphite maker Paragon  —  Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups.

Bloomberg: Alibaba appoints Jiang Fan its new e-commerce chief in an overhaul of the struggling business; Jiang was demoted in 2020 after allegations of improper conduct  —  – International chief Jiang will oversee entire commerce unit  — Jiang will become one of the company’s most powerful execs

Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of total Q3 streaming hours, with YouTube Gaming in second place at 5.6%; Kick grew 204% from Q2 2023 to Q3 2024  —  For years, the Logitech-owned creator dashboard Streamlabs and its data partner Stream Hatchet have compiled quarterly progress reports for the streaming industry.

Lithium-ion batteries are the workhorses of home electronics and are powering an electric revolution in transportation. But they are not suitable for every application. A key drawback is their flammability and toxicity, which make large-scale lithium-ion energy storage a bad fit in densely populated city centers and near metal processing or chemical manufacturing plants. Now […]

On Nov. 10, some of the country’s top memorizers converged on MIT’s Kresge Auditorium to compete in a “Tournament of Memory Champions” in front of a live audience. The competition was split into four events: long-term memory, words-to-remember, auditory memory, and double-deck of cards, in which competitors must memorize the exact order of two decks […]

Brendan Carr wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Communications Commission. Now Donald Trump has tapped him to run the agency.

The Echo Show 21 is the largest yet, plus the Echo Show 15 gets a second generation.

On December 3, WIRED will be sitting down with some of the biggest names in technology, business, science, and beyond for a full day packed with in-depth conversations.

Sara Fischer / Axios: Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025  —  – “We’re looking at a concentration around a handful of players that lack objectivity,” Green said.

Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.12B est., and projects FY 2025 sales in line with estimates; PANW drops 5%+ after hours  —  Merely in-line outlook for fiscal 2025 weighs on the stock, down 5% after hours  —  Referenced Symbols

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours  —  Snowflake said it has inked a multi-year deal to bring Anthropic’s Claude models to Snowflake Cortex AI.

A flying robot uses its bird-like tail to maintain stability in flight – a technique that could enable more aerodynamic aircraft designs that use less fuel

Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, in an effort to create an alternative to focus groups and polling

Acoustic metamaterials — architected materials that have tailored geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium — have been studied extensively through computational and theoretical methods. Physical realizations of these materials to date have been restricted to large sizes and low frequencies. “The multifunctionality of metamaterials — being simultaneously […]

In 2015, 195 nations plus the European Union signed the Paris Agreement and pledged to undertake plans designed to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Yet in 2023, the world exceeded that target for most, if not all of, the year — calling into question the long-term feasibility of achieving that target. […]

Inspired by the way that squids use jets to propel themselves through the ocean and shoot ink clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst of drugs directly into the wall of the stomach or other organs of the digestive tract. This capsule could offer an alternative […]

Brands that dismiss games as a niche interest are missing out on one of the most powerful media channels available today.

Policies and individual common sense will only get you so far.

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman on creating a focused strategy for growth.

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are injectable medications—but a strange new market has emerged selling oral “compounded” versions online, despite a lack of evidence that they work.

AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media.

Tailing a robotaxi for hours and hours is weird. And revelatory. And jealousy-inducing. But a driverless world is coming for all of us. So shut the door and buckle up.

David Streitfeld / New York Times: How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits  —  Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often […]

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations  —  Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.

Mia Sato / The Verge: Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website’s focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse”  —  Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little …

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket reinvents the gacha game for a Pikachu-loving audience. It’s attracted millions of players—and more than a little controversy.

The wiki paid homage to the “Tumblr Sexyman” phenomenon. After hosting site Fandom deleted it, fans scrambled to collect its archive and find a new home.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, Luther, and Agatha All Along are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.