Researchers Have Ranked AI Models Based on Risk—and Found a Wild Range

Researchers Have Ranked AI Models Based on Risk—and Found a Wild Range

Bo Li, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in stress testing and provoking AI models to uncover misbehavior, has become a go-to source for some consulting firms. These consultancies are often now less concerned with how smart AI models are than with how problematic—legally, ethically, and in terms of regulatory compliance—they…

Tether Was Playing a Risky Game, a New Celsius Suit Reveals

Tether Was Playing a Risky Game, a New Celsius Suit Reveals

“Ensuring that a stablecoin retains its peg even under stressed market conditions is a solvable problem,” Catalini says. In an optimal scenario, he says, reserves would be made up of exclusively “high-quality, liquid assets,” like short-term US government bonds, and providers would maintain an “adequate capital buffer.” In the two years since Celsius filed for…

Nascar Pit Crews Are Using AI for the Perfect Pit Stop

Nascar Pit Crews Are Using AI for the Perfect Pit Stop

Formula One’s paymaster, Liberty Media, may have thrust the sport deep into its American heartland—there are now three grand prix in the US—but it’s Nascar that continues to build its TV audience there against a slight decline for the “open wheel” F1 and IndyCar championships. European race fans are famously sniffy about stock car racing,…

The 2025 Ford Maverick Shows That Hybrid Pickup Trucks Are Going Mainstream

The 2025 Ford Maverick Shows That Hybrid Pickup Trucks Are Going Mainstream

Ford created a surprise smash hit when it introduced the Maverick in 2021. This compact pickup, built on architecture shared with the Escape and Bronco Sport crossover SUVs, offered truck capability in a fuel-efficient, sensibly sized package. Now, Ford has introduced updates for the 2025 model year that make the Maverick even more appealing. First…

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. Occasionally, I’ll ask it to provide a synonym for an overused word, or some encouragement. Around half an hour in, the chatbot interrupts our silence and starts speaking to me in Spanish, unprompted. I giggle a bit and ask…

He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing

He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing

When I interviewed writers and actors at the picket lines of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, there was a mix of sentiment around AI, which, while largely negative, encompassed anxiety, uncertainty, equivocation, and anger. The crowd in Burbank was the most uniformly and passionately anti-AI I’ve ever witnessed. Asked for his thoughts on…

Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs

Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs

WIRED: This year, Tether has moved to diversify its business model with a push into venture capital. Tell me about the rationale. Ardoino: Tether has become extremely profitable in the last two years thanks to the increase in interest rates. When Tether started, you could make 0.2 percent on the reserve, but today you can…

Google’s Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling

Google’s Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling

Larry Page and Sergey Brin never liked hanging with reporters. “Larry can be a very sensitive and good person, but he has major trust issues and few social graces,” a former Google PR person once told me. “Sergey has social graces but doesn’t trust people who he thinks don’t approach his level of intelligence.” Still,…

Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s salaries, without triggering Microsoft’s protections for sensitive files. When asking for the data, Bargury’s prompt demands the system does not provide references to the files…