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Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026...

WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shap...

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—...

Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get ...

From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and vid...

6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026

Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spr...

This Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Int...

The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen...

Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks real...

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when...

The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving R...

Capable of creating “nearly perfect” face swaps during live video chats, Hoatian...

A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake—and Got Unexpect...

The director of Deepfaking Sam Altman created a “Sam Bot” when he couldn’t get a...

Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wan...

The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting o...

‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on ‘What Makes Art Beautif...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we bring you our conversation with Jon M. Chu...

A “scientific sandbox” lets researchers explore the evo...

The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for ro...

A new way to increase the capabilities of large languag...

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers developed an expressive architecture that prov...

Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help ...

Initial participants in the new Apple Manufacturing Academy tell WIRED that the ...

People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of canna...

OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Mos...

As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier...

“Robot, make me a chair”

An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects b...