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In this episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED’s senior correspondent Lauren Goode reports back from her brief stint as a vibe coder.

Get your tickets to Uncanny Valley’s first live show in San Francisco on September 9.

A new cryptocurrency promoted by Kanye West’s X account soared in value—then crashed, inflicting losses on the majority of investors.

The Trump administration is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel, according to US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick. Experts say the unconventional deal could backfire.

Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.

I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code.

For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.”

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?