OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs
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.
Robots learn human-like movement adjustments to prevent object slipping
To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional approaches to enhancing the ability of robots to grasp objects work by tightening the grip of a robotic hand to prevent objects from slipping.
AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September
The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US.
Filtered data stops openly-available AI models from performing dangerous tasks, study finds
Researchers from the University of Oxford, EleutherAI, and the UK AI Security Institute have reported a major advance in safeguarding open-weight language models. By filtering out potentially harmful knowledge during training, the researchers were able to build models that resist subsequent malicious updates—especially valuable in sensitive domains such as biothreat research.
TD Securities taps Layer 6 and OpenAI to deliver real-time equity insights to sales and trading teams
TD Securities rolled out an AI assistant for its equity sales and research teams. The goal is to bring assistants and agents throughout the bank.Read More
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure” on Reddit.
AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement
The challenge is not just to build better AI tools, but to ask harder questions about where they are taking us.Read More
The 4 Best Hearing Aids for Seniors in 2025, Tested and Reviewed
These WIRED-tested hearing aids are our top selections for seniors whose hearing has faded with age.
From terabytes to insights: Real-world AI obervability architecture
GUEST: Consider maintaining and developing an e-commerce platform that processes millions of transactions every minute, generating large amounts of telemetry data, including metrics, logs and traces across multiple microservices. When critical incidents occur, on-call engineers face the daunting task of sifting through an ocean of data to unravel r…Read More
A Special Diamond Is the Key to a Fully Open Source Quantum Sensor
Quantum sensors can be used in medical technologies, navigation systems, and more, but they’re too expensive for most people. That’s where the Uncut Gem open source project comes in.