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Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it’s now an entertainment company with 20 million users.

While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all.

GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to OpenAI’s new deal with the US government.

The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we’re talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial.

On August 14, bring your questions about OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, and what it means for the future of chatbots.

Dylan Field took Figma public in one of the wildest IPOs in recent memory. He insists the real story is the rise of design itself.