There’s a new pair of camera-less smart glasses in town: the Halliday G2, designed to listen to workplace meetings, absorb what happens, and summarize all…
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‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Are the kids all right? The answer to that question probably depends on your criteria. At the very least, I can tell you that some…
Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and…
How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage
Earlier this summer, Google rolled out a bunch of upgrades to its Gemini AI apps, making them more powerful than ever. Google’s AI can now…
Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI…
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they must stop profiting from the…
A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War
Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have…
Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the details behind Apple suing OpenAI over alleged stolen hardware secrets. And the company’s headaches don’t stop…
Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States last year, securing new transparency requirements in California…