Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?

Three months ago, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman told me his concerns about a mounting public relations crisis facing artificial intelligence companies: Despite the popularity of…

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses Meta’s recent layoffs and what they’ve been hearing from employees about the increasingly grim vibes at the…

I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me

It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric dinosaur. A cupcake with a…

SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing

SpaceX warned investors that AI features such as Grok’s “Spicy” and “Unhinged” modes, which allow the chatbot to generate raunchy image or voice responses with…

SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers

Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit,…

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent was…

Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal

At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But since their works of fiction…

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026

Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write,…

Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs

Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon…

Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent

Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini…