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Senators Press Howard Lutnick’s Former Investment Firm Over Tariff Conflict of Interest Concerns

Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are demanding answers from Cantor Fitzgerald after WIRED reported that the firm was essentially creating a way for clients to bet on whether Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court.

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Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself

Anytime you expect AI to be self-aware, you’re in for disappointment. That’s just not how it works.

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The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale

Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters.

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GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence

Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact.

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Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury

World Liberty Financial has struck a deal that will turn a little-known company into a vehicle for betting on the price of its crypto coin.

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Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it’s now an entertainment company with 20 million users.

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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood

While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all.

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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.

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WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership

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.

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Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars

The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.

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