Apple’s AI Ambitions Leave Big Questions Over Its Climate Goals
Halfway to its 2030 net-zero goal, Apple faces slow and hold-out suppliers, a tariffs scramble, and an AI race that could profoundly impact eco-friendly ambitions.
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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all.
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure” on Reddit.
WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to OpenAI’s new deal with the US government.
Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.
Neural Networks
A neural network is a type of computer system inspired by the structure and function of the human brain, designed to learn from data and recognize patterns. It consists of layers of interconnected nodes, called neurons, that process information in stages. Each neuron receives inputs, applies mathematical weights, passes the result through an activation function,…
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Created with Midjourney 7 Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables computers to read printed or handwritten text from images, photos, or scanned documents and convert it into editable, searchable digital data. Using advanced pattern recognition and machine learning, OCR analyzes the shapes of letters, numbers, and symbols, compares them to known…
Neuralese
Image by Midjourney V7 Neuralese is the informal name for the internal, high-dimensional “language” that artificial intelligence systems use to communicate with themselves or other machines. Unlike human language, which is limited to words, Neuralese operates directly in the realm of numbers (dense mathematical vectors) allowing models to reason and exchange information far more efficiently….
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.
The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we’re talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial.