08 May Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained Today on Uncanny Valley, we’re diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models.
08 May Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
08 May How to Disable Google’s Gemini in Chrome Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.
07 May Trump’s Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He’s Already Rejected As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.
07 May A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.
07 May Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.
06 May The Italian Dubbing of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Has Stirred Up a Surprising Controversy The voice actors from the original film have returned for the sequel—and not everyone is happy about it.
06 May Telehealth Abortion Is Still Possible Without Mifepristone Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place.
06 May ‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk in 2017 and subsequent efforts to remove several board members.
