Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the…
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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…
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
In early July, Meta rolled out a new feature where anyone using its AI app could tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their…
AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
If you think an artificial intelligence model running on thousands of cutting-edge computer chips is smart, allow me to introduce you to the concept of…
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI, has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight,…