The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is…
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AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
For 6 months, my husband convinced everyone that I had stolen millions from the company I built, including our own daughter. As I sat in…
This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence
Over the past few years, the term “weaponized incompetence” has blown up in dating discourse online. It’s used to describe someone—most often the guy, when…
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests
Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing. The company says…
Crafting Autonomous Data Pipelines for AI with Informatica, WhereScape, and Estuary
Many data pipelines were never designed for the scale and reliability modern AI workloads demand. To keep pace with change, organizations are moving toward autonomous…
Halcyon Stops Ransomware Encryption Before It Starts with File Resilience
Jul 31, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Halcyon, the ransomware resilience platform, is introducing File Resilience (FiRe), a new capability that prevents ransomware encryption before files…
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is Now Available, Advancing Data and AI Trust With Deeper Enterprise Application Protection
Jul 31, 2026 By Stephanie Simone VeeamSoftware, the Data and AI Trust Company, is releasingVeeam Data Platform v13.1, advancing the standard for data resilience by…
Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
I was offline last week in my home state of New Jersey, but when I got back to Silicon Valley, everyone was panicking again about…
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the launch of Nvidia’s splashy alliance to push for open-source AI security alongside companies like Microsoft, SpaceX,…
Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
Google’s Chrome browser has always been focused on pushing security updates. A decade ago it was controversial that the browser, the first to add automatic…