Category Archives: Business

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and look closely at complaints to the FTC alleging that ChatGPT led them or loved ones into AI psychosis.

In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at the edge of China’s booming ecommerce industry.

An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena.

Three of the biggest US tech companies reported record profits and record infrastructure spending on Wednesday, fueling speculation about a possible AI market bubble.

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix.

A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.

As crypto-based prediction services attract a flood of attention and capital, the US president’s social media platform has announced plans to muscle in.

The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.

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.