Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

The Ramp AI Index for September 2026 shows AI spending per employee among the top 1 percent of US companies fell nearly 10 percent in August. The price per million tokens has dropped 41 percent since March 2026, and companies are actively shifting usage away from expensive frontier models toward cheaper alternatives. For providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, the question is whether volume growth is fast enough to make up for falling prices.

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Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.