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When a young man from California broadcast his death on X, profit-hungry traders piled into a cryptocurrency created in his image.

The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out of work, leavin...

Plus: iRobot unveils its new robo vacs, JBL pimps its most beloved speakers, a bright future for TCL TVs, and more.

The old “teach a man to fish” proverb, but for AI chatbots.

A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

Is work religion, or is religion work? Both.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream.

After identifying major flaws in popular AI models, researchers are pushing for a new system to identify and report bugs.

Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass to...

From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flau...

Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next d...

As Tesla faces a global sales slump, and with shares down for the seventh consecutive week, could Elon Musk's antics really be to blame?

In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partne...

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

Rather than buy bitcoin directly, Donald Trump's plan calls for holding the US government's current bitcoin assets in reserve—and creates a...

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

On Uncanny Valley this week, our hosts talk about the pronatalism movement, and how the push to increase birth rates is trending among some...

OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle...

A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency.

Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It's now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field ha...

The imposition of the tariffs on Mexico and Canada represent a violation of the USMCA and could trigger a tariff war, experts say.

Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufactu...