People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting...
Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows
The NexPhone is a rugged device powered by a Qualcomm QCM64490 chip with a reportedly long support road map (through...
‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared...
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to...
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
“We are moving into a new phase of informational warfare on social media platforms where technological advancements have made the...
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz...
A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots
On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plug-in for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the...
Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice...
The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
The US and China are, by many measures, archrivals in the field of artificial intelligence, with companies racing to outdo...
Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal
Days after Micron broke ground on a $100 billion chip factory in New York state, a coalition of environmentalists, labor...
