Fortnite players are able to hop into matches following a login issue that Epic Games described as preventing users from “getting in reliably.” “This log-in outage is resolved; all players are able to log-in again across all platforms,” Epic said at 8:54PM ET. “We’ll continue monitoring our services to ensure there are no other issues.” […]
Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact.
GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence Read More »
The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.
OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs Read More »
Tesla’s in-car visualizations for features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving might be getting an upgrade with a switch to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. As reported by Not a Tesla App, Tesla hacker greentheonly says they found evidence of the change in Tesla’s 2025.20 firmware for Tesla Model S and Model X cars with AMD chips.
Stripe, a financial services company that acts as a payment processor for millions of businesses including itch.io, has issued an apology following reports that members of its support team told callers the business does not support the sale of LGBTQ content. “We apologize: the information given by our support team was totally wrong,” said Stripe
Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned Read More »
In a regulatory filing on Monday, Kodak warned investors that the 133-year-old photography company didn’t have the financing it would need to pay around $500 million of debt obligations that were coming due, raising doubts about the company’s ability to continue. But in a statement shared with The Verge, Kodak says it plans to use
Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down Read More »
Halfway to its 2030 net-zero goal, Apple faces slow and hold-out suppliers, a tariffs scramble, and an AI race that could profoundly impact eco-friendly ambitions.
Apple’s AI Ambitions Leave Big Questions Over Its Climate Goals Read More »
Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it’s now an entertainment company with 20 million users.
Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories Read More »
The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care patients.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to OpenAI’s new deal with the US government.
WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership Read More »
