Check Out Highlights From WIRED's Big Interview Event On December 4, WIRED sat down with some of the biggest names in tech, culture, business, and science for a day full of in-depth interviews. In 2024, we brought those talks to a stage in San Francisco for the very first time. This year, we did it again, bringing together AMD CEO Lisa Su, director Jon M. Chu, Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, and many more. The Big Interview, a one-day, in-person event held at The Midway in San Francisco on December 4, featured a series of in-depth, illuminating Q&As with some of the biggest names in innovation today, each led by a WIRED journalist. We also hosted our take on a modern-day science fair, complete with hands-on demos and other fun experiences.

Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova joins us to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the battery industry, and how smart software like Peaxy Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) for Batteries can solve them. Peaxy's Lifecycle Intelligence offers predictive battery analytics, powered by machine learning. What do you see as the top data challenges in the battery industry, and how can they be solved? Batteries are unique and fickle industrial assets, and yet many companies use fleet-level or system level models to manage them. While that can be helpful, I don't believe such models are good at predicting and optimising industrial equipment, including batteries. Simply put, if you're unable to resolve data down to the individual battery -- a unique serial number -- chances are you won't be able to monetise your analytics.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the destiny of humanity, but first humanity has the opportunity to shape AI. At times, anxiety about the former causes us to overlook the latter. We forget that artificial intelligence is going to serve the goals with which we're now programming it. Its implementation will follow the standards we now have the opportunity to set. This leaves citizens -- and those representing us in government -- with an urgent responsibility.

AI is a constellation of technologies--from machine learning to natural language processing--that allows machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn. Artificial intelligence will transform the relationship between people and technology, charging our creativity and skills. The future of AI promises a new era of disruption and productivity, where human ingenuity is enhanced by speed and precision. How is AI affecting our creative industries, and are all the changes for the better? We've got another brilliant Byte The Book panel to explore this topic chaired by journalist and author Mark Piesing.

It's gotten there by being very good at knowing what it does best. Now, to reach the next stages of profitability and long-term success, it has to amplify all that. The Swedish streaming service announced in a memo on Monday that it will begin allowing advertisers to sponsor its signature Discover Weekly playlist, which refreshes every week with custom history- and preference-based song recommendations for every user. The new sponsorship's in-playlist and native ads, which will be delivered to all users on the free tier, will kick off with a series from Microsoft tied to the software company's "Empowering Us All" artificial intelligence campaign. Spotify already offers brand sponsorships on some of its other editorial playlists, but until now it has kept Discover Weekly -- which is heralded by both fans and competitor services as its flagship feature, and draws more than 40 million users a month -- a more organic, unfettered experience.

Sponsored "Machine learning is eating the world," writes Clarence Chio in Machine Learning and Security with David Freeman, who heads a team of ML engineers charged with detecting and preventing fraud and abuse across LinkedIn. Chio went on to write that in fact: "Cybersecurity is also eating the world," and he has a point. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed, on its second anniversary in October 2018, it had stopped more than 10 attacks per week, primarily from hostile nation states. Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the rise in threats has led to a boom in sales of cybersecurity software: it will be a $248bn (£194bn) industry by 2023, according to Markets and Markets research. Within this, the future for machine learning is bright.

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