Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Mira Murati and several other former OpenAI researchers are behind the buzzy AI startup, now valued at $12 billion and officially out of stealth.
You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst
Welcome to Uncanny Valley’s very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.
Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.
A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Elon Musk’s chatbot has gone on a tirade, praising Adolph Hitler and parroting antisemitic tropes.
OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?
A chatbot designed to avoid anthropomorphism offers a compelling glimpse into the future of human-to-AI relationships.
Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.