Wayve, the self-driving car firm set to launch robotaxis on UK roads, has raised 1.5 billion US dollars (£1.1 billion) from investors including Uber, Microsoft and chip giant Nvidia. It…
Read more BYD triples European sales, Gucci faces backlash over AI slop – Tech DigestFor Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank…
Read more I Went On a Dinner Date With an AI Chatbot. Here’s How It Went.Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney…
Read more Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filingWe can debate the worthiness of Elon Musk’s accomplishments—building up Tesla, hollowing out the government, shooting for Mars—but we can all agree that his insistence on being seen…
Read more Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My CoworkersCalifornia is quickly becoming a national leader in figuring out how families, educators, and lawmakers should adapt to life with artificial intelligence. From new classroom conversations to the…
Read more Chatbot Crackdown: How California is responding to the rise of AIA new tool from Microsoft called Agent 365 is designed to help businesses control their growing collection of robotic helpers. Agent 365 is not a platform for making…
Read more Microsoft’s Agent 365 Wants to Help You Manage Your AI Bot ArmyThe developers of the big generative AI chatbots are continuing to push out new features at a rapid rate, as they bid to make sure their bot is…
Read more Use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to Organize Your Life With Scheduled ActionsAI companies have made a big to-do about their chatbots providing a personalized experience for users, conversations based on their unique preferences and idiosyncrasies. So why do people…
Read more The Cult of the Chatbot Is RisingEveryone has an inner monologue. When you’re commuting on the train, riding a bike, or in the shower, chances are you’re thinking about the day ahead, tasks you…
Read more Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your ThoughtsBack in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for serving a single purpose: snark. The site lets…
Read more Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don’t Copy and Paste an Answer From a ChatbotAnthropic’s research hints at an unnerving future: one where A.I. doesn’t fight back maliciously but evolves beyond the boundaries we can enforce. Unsplash+ Does A.I. really fight back?…
Read more Does A.I. Really Fight Back? What Anthropic’s AGI Tests Reveal About Control and RiskCharacter.AI will no longer permit teenagers to interact with its chatbots, as AI companies face increasing pressure to better safeguard younger users from harm. In a statement, the…
Read more Character.AI to ban teens from talking to its chatbotsFor the first time ever, OpenAI has released a rough estimate of how many ChatGPT users globally may show signs of having a severe mental health crisis in…
Read more OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every WeekThe oddest, and most memorable, interaction I had with ChatGPT Atlas occurred as I scrolled around on Bluesky and asked it to highlight any trends it saw. (ChatGPT…
Read more OpenAI’s Atlas Wants to Be the Web’s Tour Guide. I’m Not Convinced It Needs OneA line in the sand has been drawn in the AI race: the porn-brained and the porn-banned. Microsoft has sorted itself into the latter category. According to a…
Read more Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won’t Build a Jerk-Off MachineIf you’ve ever had a package delayed by FedEx, you already know the feeling of frustration. You refresh the tracking page for the tenth time, watching as the…
Read more FedEx’s Use of AI Chatbots Is the Worst Thing a Company Could Do to Its CustomersI recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The bot reported that the top…
Read more Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but also startled ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The Chinese tech giant…
Read more How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI ChatbotEarlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death of a teenager who took…
Read more Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPTIn this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about one author’s journey to flee the US, social media surveillance, chatbots and the world of AI, and conspiracy theories…
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