This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
Mistral AI has completed a €3 billion Series D, the largest single equity round for a European tech company, led by Samsung, EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, and PSG Equity. The round values Mistral at over €21 billion, but it remains about one-fortieth the valuation of US rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.
Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's head of alignment science, publicly stated that he believes there is more than a 10% chance AI will wipe out humanity in the next decade and that Anthropic still has no solution to superintelligence alignment. His remarks, responding to researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation, highlight the deepening contradiction inside AI labs as they race toward IPO while warning about existential risk.
Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
Gemini 2.5 Pro's code execution score dropped from 100.00 to 75.00 in today's Smoke evaluation, pulling the main leaderboard down from 88.75 to 81.53. The simultaneous decline in code execution and engineering judgment points more to small-sample question variance than to proven model regression.
In today's Smoke evaluation, Grok 4's materials constraint score fell 22.2 points to 77.80, dragging its main leaderboard score down 5.2 points to 88.64. The swing most likely reflects small-sample question sampling variance rather than genuine model degradation.
On 2026-09-11, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Doubao Pro ranking first that day at 95.28. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test intended to capture short-term signals, not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) documented a financially motivated attacker who used an AI coding assistant and a multi-agent framework to build and deploy a large-scale credential-stealing pipeline in under six hours with almost no human intervention. It is the first time GTIG has recorded, in actual Mandiant incident response data, an attacker using autonomous AI execution across an entire attack chain.
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Nvidia's roughly $20 billion licensing agreement with AI inference chip startup Groq, with parallel Senate scrutiny targeting a structure that critics call a "de facto merger wrapped in a license." The case marks the first time federal enforcers have formally opened an inquiry into the "license-plus-talent-acquisition" playbook that Big Tech has used to deploy more than $40 billion over the past two years.
