Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…

This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern

Humanoid robots might be able to run, dance, and occasionally kick people, but to become truly human, they’re going to need to learn how to…

Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations

The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to…

OpenAI Has New AI Models. Here’s Why You Can’t Use Them

OpenAI is delaying the public release of its next generation of AI models, GPT-5.6, at the request of Trump’s White House, the company confirmed on…

Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI

Earlier this month I attended Vivatech, a huge tech conference in Paris. One fear dominated the discussions: the prospect of ending up stuck using American…

How Qatar Became FIFA’s Technology Test Lab

To casual soccer viewers, the game may look like it always has—same green field, 22 players, a referee, and the familiar rhythm of play unfolding…

Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe

Anthropic has spent the last five years warning the world about how advanced artificial intelligence could enable mass destruction, destabilize society, and cause a litany…

Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman—which reportedly did not paint him…

World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance

The sheer scale of data being recorded at this summer’s World Cup is unprecedented. FIFA, the tournament organiser, will track around 150 million data points…

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

The Think Family Database holds records on close to half a million people who live in the city of Bristol, England. For many years, few…