WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership

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 ...
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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I ...
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Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
The Trump administration’s radical changes to United States fiscal policy, foreign relations, and global strategy—combined with mass firings across the ...
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Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline
We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken ...
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Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’
Carter termed this alleged discrimination campaign Operation Chokepoint 2.0, in reference to an Obama-era antifraud program under which US officials ...
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Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety
At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind ...
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Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History

Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History
Last week, the United Kingdom began requiring residents to verify their ages before accessing online pornography and other adult content, ...
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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government
“We are teaming up with Accenture Federal Services to accelerate AI across the U.S. Government, working to address federal agencies’ ...
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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages
US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs ...
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What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’
From JD Vance’s dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman’s Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published ...
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