Category Archives: Business

Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here

Today on Uncanny Valley, we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what that means for us non-robots.

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Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal

Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker.

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China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon

As Washington pushes for a TikTok deal, Beijing is countering with probes into American chipmakers.

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Jensen Huang Has Gone Nano Bananas!

The Nvidia CEO reveals his consuming love for Google’s image generator, the artsy side of Grok, and what exactly he uses Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT for right now.

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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push

Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion in the UK during US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

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OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Safety Features Amid Growing Scrutiny

CEO Sam Altman announced an age-prediction system and new parental controls in a blog post on Tuesday.

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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

The Cloudflare CEO joined The Big Interview to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet’s potential futures, and his company’s relationship to Trump.

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How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

At WIRED’s AI Power Summit Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.

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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

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USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.

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