This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms....
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library....
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers....
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says....
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples....
Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B....
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time....
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system....
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps....
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids....
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach....
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work....
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member....
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition....
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters....
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its...
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its...
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too....
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence....
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price....
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content....
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough....
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off....
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub....
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."...
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for....
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits....
Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal....
As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is that regular insurers "heard a bunch of scary science words and freaked out."...
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations....