Aarian Marshall

Microsoft’s chatty search interface was impressive. But it also served up glitches, ethical dilemmas—and talk of a mysterious “Sydney.”

Microsoft’s new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining media business models.

More than 360,000 vehicles will receive an over-the-air update after the US government said that Autopilot can be dangerous in some driving situations.

Tesla pioneered selling vehicles online. Electric cars, the pandemic, and changing consumer behavior are now causing other automakers to embrace the shift.

Elon Musk says a new Tesla will rewire the company and help save the world, but he won’t tell investors what it is.

San Francisco’s 10,000-odd Uber and Lyft drivers have already gotten used to sharing the road with trainee machines designed to make their work obsolete. From that front-row seat they have watched the robots trigger on-road drama that has angered city officials, as the self-driving vehicles have blocked fire trucks, emergency vehicles, and city buses, and caused jams by “freezing” in traffic. WIRED spoke to 10 drivers who work in San Francisco about what they’ve seen of the robot taxis so far an…

The global car electrification project—needed to eliminate carbon emissions from transport so the world can meet climate goals—and drivers’ unexpectedly healthy appetite for EVs is currently the biggest story in the auto industry. Like other automakers, Ford will have to follow the lead of policymakers, including in California and the European Union, who have pledged to effectively ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The industry is piling money into new models powered by batteries and th…

Tesla’s pioneering electric vehicles kicked off a new era that has turned the entire auto industry on its head. In a scramble to compete with Tesla and make that transition, the legacy automakers targeted by the current strike, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, have each pledged billions in global investment and have begun dramatically restructuring their operations. For workers, the “green jobs” being created can be scarcer and worse paying. Electric vehicle powertrains have many fewer mov…

The dispute looks unlikely to end soon. As they try to understand where things are headed, economists, philosophers, labor experts, business professors, and a handful of boutique consulting firms see a juicy opportunity to put a 100-year-old economic theory into practice. Guys. It’s time for some game theory. For those who learned it from memes, not in school, game theory is the “science of strategic thinking,” says Kevin Zollman, a professor of philosophy and social decision science at Carnegie…

Amazon is splashing out on new vehicle inspectors to watch for damage or wear to its vast fleet of delivery vans—and they’re not human. The retailer is installing camera-studded inspection stations equipped with artificial intelligence-powered technology called AVI, or automated vehicle inspection, at hundreds of its distribution centers worldwide. When a driver working out of any of the 20 delivery centers currently equipped with the tech returns their vehicle at the end of a shift, they slowly…