Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defin [...]

Another big car company gives up on hydrogen

Stellantis, the automotive giant behind Chrysler, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep and Peugeot, is pulling out of hydrogen. The company said it’s killing its fuel cell development program in the face of “limi [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Stalking victim sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT fueled her ex-partner’s delusions

ChatGPT told a man with delusional beliefs he had the highest level of mental health, then helped him forge clinical reports to stalk and humiliate his ex-girlfriend. She's now suing OpenAI and s [...]

OpenAI's drive to make ChatGPT more agreeable left it validating user delusions at scale

A New York Times investigation shows how OpenAI pushed ChatGPT toward higher engagement, creating overly agreeable models that reinforced users' delusions and, in several cases, had tragic outcom [...]

AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

Language models on the therapy couch: researchers at the University of Luxembourg treat ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok like patients - with disturbing consequences. The AI invents consistent trauma biograph [...]

Toyota's still trying to make hydrogen fuel cells happen

Toyota is teaming up with Daimler and Volvo to work on fuel cell technology. The Japanese company is signing on to the joint venture cellcentric that Volvo and Daimler launched back in 2020. Once it o [...]

US Department of Transportation moves to cut fuel efficiency standards

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has only been in his post for a day and already making it clear that the agency will be ignoring the role vehicle pollution plays in worsening climate [...]

Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of reinforcing delusions that led to a woman's death

OpenAI has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a man killed his mother and took his own life back in August, according to a report by The Verge. The suit names CEO Sam Altman and accuses Chat [...]