Alphabet incoming CFO Anat Ashkenazi, who spent 23 years at Eli Lilly Eli Lilly Alphabet’s outgoing finance chief, Ruth Porat, spent the past year and a half trying to help her internet company navigate the generative artificial intelligence boom. The person who was just named her successor was knee-deep in a very different phenomenon: anti-obesity … Read more
Less than three years after first deliveries commenced (but almost eight years after they were originally revealed), Rivian is already facelifting its R1T pickup and R1S SUV. Rivian doesn’t want to simply call this a facelift or mid-cycle refresh, though — instead the brand is calling the updated R1 lineup the “second generation” of the … Read more
If you’ve ever looked at a Toyota SUV and wished it could imbue a little more luxury in your life, but you’ve simultaneously felt like Lexus was simply too luxurious for you, then I’ve got absolutely fantastic news: the luxury-adjacent 2025 Toyota Crown Signia might just fill that hyperspecific niche! Full disclosure: Toyota invited me … Read more
Last week, an AI Overview search result from Google used one of my WIRED articles in an unexpected way that makes me fearful for the future of journalism. I was experimenting with AI Overviews, the company’s new generative AI feature designed to answer online queries. I asked it multiple questions about topics I’ve recently covered, … Read more
It really seems like Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pushing his automaker’s needs by the wayside in favor of Twitter and his artificial intelligence company, xAI. It also looks as if Musk is going back on his April promise that Tesla will drastically increase the number of Nvidia H100 (the company’s flagship AI chip) it … Read more
As anyone who so much as glanced at the internet in the past few weeks probably noticed, Google’s sweeping AI upgrade to its search engine had a rocky start. Within days of the company launching AI-generated answers to search queries called AI Overviews, the feature was widely mocked for producing wrong and sometimes bonkers answers, … Read more
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud-computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet is laying off employees from several teams in Google’s cloud unit, one of its fastest-growing businesses, CNBC has learned. The company notified employees last week of the cloud cuts, with … Read more
A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new generative AI search feature. The episode highlights the risks of Google’s aggressive drive to commercialize generative AI—and also the treacherous and fundamental limitations of that technology. Google’s … Read more
When bizarre and misleading answers to search queries generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature went viral on social media last week, the company issued statements that generally downplayed the notion the technology had problems. Late Thursday, the company’s head of search Liz Reid admitted the flubs had highlighted areas that needed improvement, writing that … Read more
Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and election meddling. They didn’t know each other but both quit in 2019, frustrated at feeling a lack of support from executives. “The work that teams like the … Read more
