Augmented Reality: Art Center student videos, "Rust War"

A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

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.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.