Category Archives: Business

Pop Mart, the Chinese company behind the Labubu franchise, has sold $670 million worth of related products so far this year—more than iconic US toy lines Barbie and Hot Wheels.

New York City tech leaders aren’t rattled by the prospect of a Mayor Mamdani. In fact, many of them welcome it.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dig into WIRED’s latest—from crude deportation memes to GPT-5’s negative reception.

Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.

Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?

Software engineers are finding OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.

The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble—and why he’s willing to spend trillions of dollars to win.

Nvidia struck a surprising deal after convincing the president that H20 chips aren’t a national security risk. But whether the reversal is good or bad depends on who you ask.

What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?