The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.
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Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Team of Human Workers—to Train Robots
AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.
OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon
OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.
WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart.
The Man Who Invented AGI
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.
WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and look closely at people’s complaints to the FTC alleging that ChatGPT led them or loved ones into AI psychosis.
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome
The new ChatGPT-powered web browser is OpenAI’s boldest play yet to reinvent how people use the web.
The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.