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In case you happened to forget about one of the most disturbing harassment campaigns ever led by a giant tech company against its critics - a big update on the civil suit filed by the Massachusetts couple who were harassed by eBay www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...

Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment CampaignFor months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.www.wired.com

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Ahead of AMD's annual AI event this week, Nvidia is pulling back the curtain on its Vera Rubin design, touting early customers (including OpenAI), staking its claim in the CPU industry—and throwing shade at chiplet designs, calling it the "chiplet tax." www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data CentersNvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.www.wired.com

It's wild out there. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of Meta’s Offices Was Briefly Overtaken by a Rogue SquirrelThe animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.www.wired.com

Microsoft isn't the only tech co to conduct mass layoffs this year, but this sentence in MSFT HR chief's memo stood out: "Companies don't get to choose whether their industry changes; they only get to choose whether they change with it." By default aren't these co's the ones changing the industry?

Sources tell me there’s a post circulating around Meta in which a worker has created a mock SEV, but instead of it being about a software outage, it’s about Meta’s internal morale…

Aaaaaand the latest, from @peard33.bsky.social: Meta has now paused its controversial employee-tracking and AI-training program, following an internal security breach we reported on earlier today www.wired.com/story/meta-p...

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data LeakThe move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.www.wired.com

NEW, from me and @peard33.bsky.social: As some employees feared might happen, Meta exposed data internally from its controversial employee-tracking and data-training program, MCI (model capability initiative) www.wired.com/story/meta-a...

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking ProgramEmployees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.www.wired.com

Personal/work news...I'm going to be contributing regularly to WIRED's flagship newsletter, Backchannel. Pls sign up k thx nhttps://bsky.app/profile/stevenlevy.bsky.social/post/3mol6nquwtc2i

NEW from @lmatsakis.bsky.social @mzeff.bsky.social: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic followed a spat over the company granting telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to ppl familiar with the matter www.wired.com/story/sk-tel...

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos ControversyDays before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.www.wired.com

Unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream: the new era of US housing www.wired.com/story/home-s...

What Do Americans Spend on Housing?WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.www.wired.com

Architectural Digest is my go-to soothing content to read/watch at night when I cannot handle any more hard news and I'm so so excited WIRED has teamed up with AD for this issue bsky.app/profile/wire...

"Roughly 300 companies addressed questions or concerns about AI tokens during their earnings calls or in public discussions with financial analysts in April or May, according to a WIRED review of transcripts." www.wired.com/story/claude... from @peard33.bsky.social

‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AIA Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.”www.wired.com

NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wired.com/story/andrew...

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.www.wired.com

Musk is now more than 3x richer than his closest competition, the founders of Google. The potential upcoming IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic will cement at least several additional billionaires, but they won’t bring anyone close to Musk’s orbit. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... from @peard33.bsky.social

Elon Musk Is the World's First TrillionaireSpaceX’s stock market debut has thrust the richest man in the universe into an unexplored frontier of wealth.www.wired.com

"You’re unlikely to get in on the SpaceX IPO. Even if you do, you’re probably only getting a handful of shares. And those shares are already priced based on SpaceX being worth $1.75 trillion, which Kennedy says 'looks a little ridiculous.'" from @brbarrett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/you-pr...

You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPOThe company has set aside an unusually high number of shares for retail investors. Still, experts say, you’re just getting the crumbs.www.wired.com