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WIRED Roundup: OpenAI Announces New Government Partnership
In today’s episode, Zoë is joined by WIRED’s Jake Lahut to run through five of the most important stories we published this week — from how bitcoin miners have been racing this year to beat the tariffs, to how AI was used to find a missing hiker in the Italian Alps. Then, Zoë and Jake discuss the details around OpenAI’s latest partnership with the federal government.
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Articles mentioned in this episode:
- OpenAI Announces Massive US Government Partnership | WIRED
- Trumpworld Knows Epstein Is a Problem. But They Can’t Solve It | WIRED
- Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs | WIRED
- Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History | WIRED
- US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush | WIRED
- A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet | WIRED
Join WIRED’s best and brightest as they provide an insider analysis of the overlap between tech and politics, from the influence of Silicon Valley on the Trump administration to how inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots fanned the fire on social protests.
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