NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned. My latest for @restofworld:

OpenAI is huge in India. It's models are steeped in caste bias Over months of reporting, @chooi_jeq and I tested the extent of caste bias in @OpenAI's GPT-5 and Sora models. Our investigation found that caste bias has gotten worse over time in OpenAI's models 🧵

SCOOP: Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions. https://t.co/S63ccSxtuY

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor. These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” 🔗 https://t.co/ZczMRT60Pa

“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response. But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.”@VarshaaBansal @guardian https://t.co/EtIfBMlUYV

Inside the world of Google's AI raters: My new investigation for @guardian tracks the lives of the invisible workers evaluating, rating & moderating the outputs of Google's AI models including its chatbot Gemini & search summaries known as AI Overviews. https://t.co/w2jJ8Radhl

This week's great long reads from: @nickripatrazone @seanpasbon @terrence_mccoy @falamarina @DevinGordonX @VarshaaBansal @AlanSiegelLA @zakcheneyrice @lpandell @Masonboyowen @FranklinFoer @jetvgc @piersgelly @heatherhaddon @chafkin @EdLudlow @dankois https://t.co/5vjmIEjL1n

Weekend #longreads: @varshaabansal’s in-depth look at the collapse of BuilderAI, the failed startup that some analysts have held up as a potential example of “AI washing” — in which companies falsely promote AI capabilities to attract attention and funding https://t.co/5nCYSWmWot

Inside the collapse of London's hottest AI startup https://t.co/oEI3EpZg8a. This is a story about AI washing with the founder claiming higher AI capabilities than what was going on internally & the power of adding AI to your company name to raise funds. https://t.co/V4KS9WBkrD

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For Rest of World’s new feature, @VarshaaBansal spoke to a dozen former BuilderAI employees from India, the U.S., and the U.K. to get an inside look at the company’s rise and fall — and explore the question: Was BuilderAI even an AI company? https://t.co/LYqh8YhhPp

An inside look at ex-unicorn https://t.co/Qfts71X4qs's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products (@varshaabansal / Rest of World) https://t.co/YJCLQdsoAO https://t.co/otjMAu8JSP https://t.co/ZOzeer1FAj

The implosion of the white-hot startup BuilderAI has employees and spectators asking how it all went wrong — and raises the question of what the $1.5B AI company was really selling. Read our new feature from @varshaabansal:

Inside the collapse of London's hottest AI startup https://t.co/oEI3EpZg8a. This is a story about AI washing with the founder claiming higher AI capabilities than what was going on internally & the power of adding AI to your company name to raise funds. https://t.co/V4KS9WBkrD

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When https://t.co/Dl1Si0hF1h suddenly collapsed observers pointed to sketchy financials and cooked books. Former employees paint a bizarre portrait of a company that made promises it couldn't keep, and touted AI advancements that simply weren't there. https://t.co/Qw1UnWo1Mk

NEW: Jo Ellis, a transgender pilot from Virginia, was accused of crashing a helicopter into an airliner, killing 67 people. But she wasn't the pilot. She was falsely blamed online for being trans. Now she's fighting back. My latest for @WIRED:

Thanks to everyone who helped me understand this issue better. @AlexMahadevan @ohhkaygo @AbelsGrace @glaad @mmfa Please read the full story here:

Ellis has filed a defamation suit against Matt Wallace, who she believes was the first one to connect her likeness to this rumor & incident. She wants something good to come out of this unfortunate incident & hopes to be the moderate trans voice that people can listen to.

Days after the disinformation storm weren’t easy for Ellis. Someone collected all her past & current social media accounts & listed them in a post with her legal name, nicknames & pictures. She received hateful messages & death threats on Facebook.

In December there were false claims that a Madison school shooter, who killed 2 people, was trans. Six months prior, a trans woman was wrongly identified as the person who tried to shoot Trump at an open-air rally. On X, Musk has been suggesting that trans people are vandalizing

@JoEllisReally isn't alone. Our review showed that since 2022, there have been a dozen such incidents where transgender people were falsely blamed for violent incidents, tragedies or mass school shootings.

NEW: Jo Ellis, a transgender pilot from Virginia, was accused of crashing a helicopter into an airliner, killing 67 people. But she wasn't the pilot. She was falsely blamed online for being trans. Now she's fighting back. My latest for @WIRED: