Tag Archives: Wired

Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, will lay off a quarter of its staff. After a grisly October accident in San Francisco, GM said it would slash the unit’s funding.

The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.

Some Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI’s answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.

Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. A WIRED investigation reveals the true scale of the project—and its impact on the local community.

The Tesla recall, which affects more than two million vehicles, follows a two-year investigation by the US government into a series of crashes linked to the Autopilot system.

Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.

In 2021, more than 13,000 people died in US alcohol-related crashes. The top US road safety regulator is exploring tech in vehicles that could check whether a driver is drunk.

An animal welfare advocacy group claims in a letter to the SEC that Elon Musk again made statements about the health of Neuralink test subjects that may have misled investors.

A company working with Tesla’s main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes.