AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race

Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to $1 million into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking…

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race |

For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant for everyday life, is…

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…

This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

Reports of an artificial intelligence arms race are everywhere—even in this very publication. But what if that framing is fundamentally dangerous? That’s Verity Harding’s conceit.…

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…

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? |

SpaceX went public this week in the largest IPO ever, making CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Despite its name, SpaceX has been emphasizing…

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss why the race among the top AI companies to go public has just gotten started but is already…

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird

Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI’s data…

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

Between malware, online impersonation, and account takeovers, there are enough digital security problems out there as it is. And with the rise of agentic AI,…