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To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.

Botto is a 'decentralized AI artist' whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its...

Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomo...

Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evad...

Following the Czech Cybertruck’s example, now there’s a rubber bumper-pimped Tesla truck attempting to be certified for use on British highw...

Traditional hierarchies hold businesses back. Instead, teams need to combine human and artificial intelligence to succeed.

Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine learning conference for their work on a new technique for...

The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the...

Bedbugs and cockroaches. Filthy shared equipment. Constant surveillance, and zero control over their accounts. These are just some of the de...

AI is replacing the humans who pretend to be OnlyFans stars in online amorous messages.

A new version of Google’s flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way p...

The US meat and dairy industries rely heavily on unauthorized workers, which means prices will likely rise sharply if the Trump administrati...

In 2025, blockchain alternatives will offer more choice, open source innovation, and community-controlled options. They will carry the torch...

Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.

At Jaguar Land Rover’s historic Halewood factory in Merseyside, England, state-of-the art assembly robots are now building the cars of the f...

Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected, surprising even t...

From personal trainers to in-person therapy, only the wealthy have access to human connection. What are the options for the less advantaged?

Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the b...

The Supreme Court, President-elect Donald Trump, or an American buyer could intervene to save the video platform, which is used by some 170...

In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he’d made on a lark. Traders, feeling swindled, sought reveng...

Generative AI could have been an existential threat for Canva, which made billions by making graphic design quick and easy. But for CEO Mela...

This week on Uncanny Valley, we do a deep dive on Open AI’s Sam Altman.

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthr...

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ah...

The founder of crypto lender Celsius has admitted to lying to customers about how their money would be used and manipulating markets for his...