Month: July 2026

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.

An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.