Paresh Dave
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Adding to the New York Times' big unveil last week of Jeff Bezos' new AI company Project Prometheus, we reveal an acquihire and that two Transformers paper authors are founding advisors
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Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Adding to the New York Times' big unveil last week of Jeff Bezos' new AI company Project Prometheus, we reveal an acquihire and that two Transformers paper authors are founding advisors
www.wired.com/story/jeff-b...
www.wired.com/story/jeff-b...
Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun
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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun
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Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million.
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A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home
Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million.
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A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social
A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home
Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback
Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
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November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
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Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist
A message on OpenAI’s internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.”
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November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...
A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”
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November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”
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"I worry a little bit about paternalism around the narrative of slop. We need to be looking at this new medium as raising the floor of what could be created before and giving minimum access to people who didn’t have access before."
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OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"I worry a little bit about paternalism around the narrative of slop. We need to be looking at this new medium as raising the floor of what could be created before and giving minimum access to people who didn’t have access before."
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"Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: 'Time spent is, I can tell you, not on any of the dashboards that I look at. It’s just not a main consideration.'"
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What insiders really think about the AI race
Buy Anthropic. Short Perplexity. Notes from this year’s Cerebral Valley Summit. Also: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev this week on ACCESS.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: 'Time spent is, I can tell you, not on any of the dashboards that I look at. It’s just not a main consideration.'"
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And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...
Expedia’s app for ChatGPT provides real-time flight and hotel pricing data in response to user queries. Users must still manually make bookings—no AI agents are involved yet. But the feature is leading to greater sales than Expedia anticipated.
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You Won’t Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon
Chatbot developers and retail giants are battling over user data as they lay the foundation for a future in which AI agents can do all your online shopping for you.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Expedia’s app for ChatGPT provides real-time flight and hotel pricing data in response to user queries. Users must still manually make bookings—no AI agents are involved yet. But the feature is leading to greater sales than Expedia anticipated.
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Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology. www.wired.com/story/bradle...
Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology. www.wired.com/story/bradle...
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Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI!
I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.
I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI!
I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.
I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
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OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
www.wired.com/story/open-a...
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Any SF Bay Area tech companies with in-office requirements excusing employees from coming in tomorrow because of the storm?
Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.
Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Any SF Bay Area tech companies with in-office requirements excusing employees from coming in tomorrow because of the storm?
Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.
Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.
"We're a metro office where we have to pay for parking, and our parking is like $10 to $15 a day, and it's really starting to add up for employees. And we do have employees that have been embarrassed to come to me and say that they can't afford to come to work"
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Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting
WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"We're a metro office where we have to pay for parking, and our parking is like $10 to $15 a day, and it's really starting to add up for employees. And we do have employees that have been embarrassed to come to me and say that they can't afford to come to work"
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Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
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Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
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