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The total viewers race between NBC News’ Today and ABC News’ Good Morning America became even more competitive, as 25,000 total viewers separated the two morning broadcasts, with Today eking out the win for the week of March 16.GMA’s good fortunes also extended into the advertiser-coveted Adults 25-54 demo, as it was the only morning show with double-digit growth. However, the show’s upswing in viewership did not make a dent in Today’s dominance in this category, as it maintained a healthy lead, with over 150,000 demo viewers separating the two shows.According to Nielsen’s national live+same-day big data plus program ratings,…
AI was once again the buzzword for this latest batch of YC Demo Day companies. Nearly 190 companies participated in Y Combinator’s Winter ‘26 cohort and presented their startups in a Demo Day on Tuesday. These companies are working on products across industries such as law, transportation, and healthcare. I did not, admittedly, listen to every single product pitch given the sheer size of the cohort and this year’s Demo Day format available to media: YC posted the pitch videos, one by one, around 20 minutes after their presentations (rather than a livestream, or an in-person session invite). Instead, I read about all 190 of the startups presenting and spent the day watching pitches…
After a relatively quiet few months, Amazon is bringing back another of its famously invented shopping holidays. The Amazon Spring Sale is in its third year, running now through March 31. Like during last year’s event, Amazon is promising customers thousands of deals across various daily, themed categories.Of course, as we’ve seen in the past with Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, the true discounts on good products will likely be buried among junk deals on shoddy wares. The WIRED Reviews team tests gear all year long, and we fact-checked discounts on the products we actively recommend to our…
The relationship between Google and news publishers has historically been an uneasy one, as the early architecture of the web enabled both to flourish but only by aligning their mutual self-interests. Publishers produced content, Google used it to answer user queries, and outlets monetized those visits with advertising.But the fraught dynamic has only worsened in recent years, as changes to the search engine have decreased the volume of referral traffic it sends to publishers. Similarly, the advent of artificial intelligence has recast the role Google plays on the web, transforming it from a librarian into a curator.On Friday, this evolution…
Google announced on Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to more countries. With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the U.S., India, and Mexico. The capability essentially turns any pair of headphones into a real-time, one-way translation device. The real-time headphone translations experience, which leverages Google’s Gemini AI, keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and…
The WIRED Reviews Team has been covering Amazon’s Big Spring Sale since it began at on Wednesday, and the overall deals have been … not great, honestly. So far, we’ve found decent markdowns on vacuums, smart bird feeders, and even an air fryer we love, but I just saw that Cadence Capsules, those colorful magnetic containers you may have seen on your social media pages, are 20 percent off. (For reference, the last time I saw them on sale, they were a measly 9 percent off.)If you’re not familiar, they allow you to decant your full-sized personal care products you…
As AI puts pressure on the business model, agencies are scrambling to find new, sustainable ways to charge for their services. Horizon Media is attempting to move away from billable hours entirely in favor of performance-based contracts—a shift that is still in its early stages.To make it happen, the independent media agency has brought on agency vet Bhavana Smith as chief operating officer, with a mandate to shift the business toward compensation built not around staffing accounts, but delivering business results.Supporting Smith are three senior leaders—Katie Comerford, Katy Ferguson, and Cherie Hankin Calingasan—who have been elevated into new roles as…
Autonomous military aircraft maker Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation, the company announced on Tuesday. The deal was led by PE firm Advent (which has a $1 billion budget to invest in defense tech it says) and a JPMorganChase investment group. In addition, Shield AI sold $500 million of preferred shares to funds managed by Blackstone (and also lined up a $250 million loan that it can draw on later). This capital is helping Shield acquire Aechelon Technology, maker of flight simulation tech used to train U.S. military pilots. Terms…
This is the older Kindle Scribe, but the price and features are the best you’ll get, especially when it’s on sale like this. I still reach for this model even though I have the newer third generation, and keep in mind the second generation will also get some of the newer software and experiences over time. With the sale, it’s half the price of the newer model.AmazonKindle Colorsoft and Colorsoft Signature EditionIf you’re already a Kindle reader and looking to upgrade, it’s likely because you want a new feature like a color screen. While the Kobo above is the better…
OpenAI pulled the plug on its viral video platform Sora earlier this week, less than a year after its splashy debut—by which point much of the creative industry had already moved on.For many in the creative industry, the shift has been less about abandoning AI video and more about redefining where it actually adds value—away from pure generation and toward supporting the broader production process.“The truth is we had already moved on to other tools that better fit the way our creative teams work,” Tim McCraken, SVP creative and AI, BarkleyOKRP told ADWEEK. According to McCraken, while Sora showed “huge…
Google announced on Thursday that it’s expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and territories will get access to the feature, Google says. First launched in July 2025, Search Live allows users to point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed. Prior to this global expansion, Search Live was only available in the U.S. and India. The expansion is enabled by Google’s new audio…
Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless government spying.In a letter sent Thursday to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the lawmakers say that because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.Several federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, and…
Twenty years ago, as I prepared to graduate with a degree in English, everyone asked me the same question: “What are you going to do with that?” At the time, it was fair. Specializing in language wasn’t a direct path into business or tech. Today, that same skill has a new label: prompt engineering. The ability to write clear, explicit instructions that provide context and guide interpretation has become valuable again in the age of large language models, because AI systems are only as precise as the directions and context they’re given. Eventually though, the model “forgets” what you told it previously. Even with…
This is one of those Silicon Valley real-life episodes that seems pulled from the HBO satire show. This week, some really atrocious malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Y Combinator graduate LiteLLM. LiteLLM gives developers easy access to hundreds of AI models and provides features like spend management. It’s a breakout hit, downloaded as often as 3.4 million times per day, according to Snyk, one of the many security researchers monitoring the incident. The project had 40K stars on GitHub and thousands of forks (those who used it as a base to alter and make it…
Chinese-language online black markets have become one of the biggest drivers of cybercrime in history, processing tens of billions of dollars of illicit finance every year. Helping the trade in stolen data, money-laundering services, and even at times electrified shackles, these underground marketplaces have fueled scam operations and human trafficking around the world. Now, officials in the United Kingdom have dealt one $20 billion cryptocurrency marketplace a potentially punishing blow.On Thursday, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, also known as the Foreign Office, revealed financial sanctions against the Xinbi Guarantee online marketplace, which will likely limit its operations. The…
Security researchers have uncovered a series of cyberattacks targeting Apple customers across the world. The tools used in these hacking campaigns have been dubbed Coruna and DarkSword, and they have been used by both government spies and cybercriminals to steal data from people’s iPhones and iPads. It’s rare to see widespread hacks targeting iPhone and iPad users. In the last decade, the only precedents have been attacks against Uyghurs Muslims in China, and against people in Hong Kong. Now, some of these powerful hacking tools have leaked online, potentially putting hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads running out-of-date software…