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On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC.

A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.

Jamison Wagner was also charged with an alleged arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party’s office.

The abrupt firing of Xiaofeng Wang and his wife from Indiana University last month has shocked the academic community, and is stoking fears that Chinese-born scholars are being intentionally targeted.

GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.

The verbose programming language felt like a universal form of communication—until it didn’t.

Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.

American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.

The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.

Under the Trump administration, federal authorities are declining to charge crypto firms with a range of offenses, raising questions about which rules apply—and who will enforce them.