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Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters.

Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a models’ emotional and social impact.

World Liberty Financial has struck a deal that will turn a little-known company into a vehicle for betting on the price of its crypto coin.

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.