Innovation

Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate | TechCrunch
A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative. But rather than giving up on the technology...
CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was reportedly fired on Wednesday after she resisted changes to covid-19 vaccine policies, according to the...
Save 20 Percent on Our Favorite Earbuds for Android
Looking to upgrade your wireless earbuds without reaching deep into your wallet? Our favorite earbuds for most people, the Nothing Ear (a) (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are currently marked down...
Malaysia’s SkyeChip unveils the country’s first edge AI processor | TechCrunch
Malaysia has developed its first domestic edge AI processor. Malaysian chip design company SkyeChip announced its MARS1000 processor at an industry event on Monday, Bloomberg reported. While an edge...
Rokid Glasses Hands-On: Smart Glasses, Buggy Voice Assistant
Smart glasses are an exciting idea right now. In theory, they’re a new gadget that does lots of the stuff that our phones do, but in an always-there form...
Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI | TechCrunch
Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a...
Google Will Make All Android App Developers Verify Their Identity Starting Next Year
Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that...
Melania Trump Is the Perfect Person to Lead Kids to the AI-Slop Trough
Melania Trump has picked her project as first lady: proliferating AI. On Tuesday, she announced the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge, a “Presidential Fitness Challenge” for the less phys. ed....
The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 Is a Budget 16-Inch Laptop That Barely Squeaks By
The keyboard and touchpad are often compromises made on budget laptops, and the same is true here. The keys feel like they take a lot of effort to push...
Nvidia Unveils High-Tech ‘Brain’ for Humanoid Robots and Self-Driving Cars
Could humanoid robots get a lot more human? Nvidia may have made that possibility a bit realer today with a smarter robot brain that has less energy demands.  The...
Tesla could have avoided that $242.5M Autopilot verdict, filings show | TechCrunch
Months before a jury awarded a $242.5 million verdict against Tesla over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash, the automaker had a chance to settle for $60 million....
WIRED Roundup: The US Chip Manufacturers’ Bonanza
On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk about the Trump administration’s deals with chipmakers, OpenAI’s potential $500 billion valuation—and ants. Source...