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A leadership commentary argues that many organizations' hiring struggles stem not from a shortage of qualified candidates but from internal systems designed to filter people out rather than develop them. The piece draws on executive-coaching insight that current hiring outcomes are simply the predictable result of how the system was built.
Google has rolled out new infrastructure aimed at supporting agentic commerce, where AI agents complete purchases on behalf of users. A payments infrastructure veteran notes that the underlying payment systems for this technology remain unresolved, echoing a recurring pattern where new commerce tech launches on rails not built for it.
A developer known as MAAN built a browser-based demo that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network using WebGPU compute shaders, hosted on Cloudflare Workers with adjustable settings and sample scenes. The port reportedly works on non-Nvidia GPUs and even macOS, using roughly 147MB of extracted model weights alongside a small JavaScript runtime, though each rendered frame currently takes one to two seconds. MAAN says the weights came from a leaked DLSS 5 library file and plans to release the source code on GitHub soon.
Clicks Technology announced upgrades to its upcoming Clicks Communicator keyboard phone ahead of its December launch, increasing RAM from 8GB to 12GB and battery capacity from 4,000 mAh to 4,350 mAh. Despite these enhancements, the company is holding the preorder price at $499, even as major manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, Google and Motorola raise prices on new devices due to rising memory costs.
Three independent security researchers at Hacktron reportedly used Anthropic's Claude Opus models to gain access to OpenAI employee accounts within 72 hours, exploiting a HEIF image-processing flaw in Discourse, the third-party service running OpenAI's community forums. They proved access by submitting a pull request through a compromised employee's Codex account but stopped short of touching OpenAI's proprietary code in its 'Monorepo' repository.
A report from McKinsey and the SEMI Foundation, cited by CNBC, projects that US semiconductor fabs could face up to 157,000 unfilled jobs by 2030. Only 3% of American engineering graduates currently enter the chip industry, and 73% of chip companies say they struggle to fill engineering positions, even as firms like TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix expand US manufacturing capacity.
Crusoe, the AI infrastructure firm behind Oracle's giant Abilene, Texas campus, has closed a $3.9 billion funding round led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala, pushing its valuation to roughly $30.9 billion. The company is using the capital to expand into smaller, factory-built facilities called Spark, designed for AI inference rather than massive training clusters.
Newly unredacted court documents from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal Microsoft's Dr. Brent Hecht warned that OpenAI's training practices resembled the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Nick Turley called it an 'existential threat to publishers.' The filings also detail how OpenAI's training pipeline bypassed paywalls and stripped copyright notices from scraped articles used to build its datasets.
LastPass and Delphos Labs identified a malware campaign that uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories impersonating LastPass and at least 39 other companies to distribute a previously unseen infostealer called Rapuncel. Victims searching for tools like LastPass Authenticator are led to fake repos where oversized ZIP files hide a renamed Microsoft debugger that sideloads the malicious payload and a Microsoft-signed kernel driver capable of killing 145 different antivirus and EDR products.
A group of U.S. senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether shopping bots and AI systems used by Walmart and Amazon are misrepresenting products as 'Made in America.' The request comes alongside other regulatory shifts, including a U.S. regulator giving tokenized stocks initial approval and credit card firms building AI agents to handle consumer purchases on shoppers' behalf.
The FCC has waived its 25 percent cap on foreign equity ownership to approve a deal allowing sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to collectively hold up to 49.5 percent of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. entity. The agency argued the stakes carry no voting rights and therefore no control, but critics including Free Press and Commissioner Anna Gomez dispute that reasoning.
WIRED is hosting a subscriber-only livestream on September 24 examining the state of women in Silicon Valley amid a broader backlash against DEI initiatives. The panel, featuring Sandra Upson, Lauren Goode, and Ej Dickson, will address reader-submitted questions about gender dynamics in tech workplaces. WIRED is soliciting questions via its comment section ahead of the event.