“It’s a PR campaign, obviously,” claims Joshua Naftalis, a former prosecutor, now a partner at law firm Pallas Partners. “It’s a no-stone-left-unturned strategy.”To date, Bankman-Fried has not filed a formal pardon application, a White House spokesperson tells WIRED. “We do not discuss speculation about sensitive issues, such as pardons, on-record,” the spokesperson says.Bankman-Fried’s appeal case hinges on the claim that the trial jury “was only allowed to see half the picture,” because of rulings by the judge, Lewis Kaplan, that blocked the defense from introducing evidence that allegedly would have helped to undercut the prosecution’s case.“At every turn, the judge…
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, visited the White House this week to announce with an initiative with Donald Trump that would give priority to World Cup ticket holders next year to process a US visa. This initiative is called “FIFA Pass.”“FIFA Pass is a prioritized appointment scheduling system,” Infantino…
Non-invasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, now shapes critical decisions for millions of families each year, with over 1 million expectant parents worldwide using these tests. These tests can reveal life-changing health information about a baby long before birth. However, the process often comes with high costs, complex paperwork and confusion…
Almost everything is on hiatus. The EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, and Digital Markets Act are all at risk. The European Commission is preparing to end the year with virtually no movement on its most important tech policy initiatives. Many measures may even be reversed.In particular, a series of…
Picture an employee facing impossible quarterly targets, under a looming layoff threat. Suddenly, an opportunity that technically violates company policy but solves everything. What do they do? Now imagine that an employee is artificial intelligence. Recent research reveals that large language models, despite being trained to be “helpful, harmless, and…
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces,…
Updated November 25 with details of a new report confirming the seasonal dangers as Amazon issues a warning for all 300 million users about the latest hack attacks. There’s no escaping the annual Black Friday sales, which seem to last longer every year. Equally, there’s no escaping that Amazon is…
OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group.“Our information indicates that [name] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI…
As Washington circulates a 28-point “peace” plan for Ukraine, the real war is being fought in pipelines, refineries, and power grids. From the Nord Stream 2 sabotage —still publicly unattributed and disputed by Western intelligence services— to strikes on Russian fuel depots and Ukrainian substations, both sides are targeting energy…
Record-breaking fall warmth is shifting U.S. energy use, agriculture timing, and economic planning, and scientists say it is part of a long-term climate pattern. Across the United States, it’s late fall, close to winter and parts of the country are still having afternoons that feel more like late spring. Allergy…
As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with €10,000 in crisp banknotes, he started to wonder what he had gotten himself into.Halliburton is the cofounder and CEO of Sazmining, a company…
Wicked: For Good opens this weekend, likely to a large box office haul. But as that’s happening, a narrative is already forming, one of fans loving it, and critics dimming since the release of the original Wicked. As it stands, audiences have given Wicked: For Good a sky-high 96% score…
Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached him with an unusual offer. She said she represented a wealthy client interested in funding voting systems that would encourage bigger turnouts. Did he have any ideas?…
Landman is one of the most popular series in Paramount Plus history, but the release of season 2 is not going over terribly well with fans. Critics are more or less on board, the show getting a 74% Rotten Tomatoes score for season 2 of Landman compared to a 78%…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very…
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