Category Archives: Business

A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

On Thursday evening, US president Donald Trump attended a private banquet with 200 of the largest investors in his personal crypto coin. Here’s what happened.

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Let’s Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating in the Classroom

Today on Uncanny Valley, we address one of the most pressing questions in education right now: What constitutes cheating at school in today’s world of AI?

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Kentucky’s Bitcoin Boom Has Gone Bust

In the US state’s coal country, crypto mining was supposed to bring renewal. Now mines are powering down, and investors are hoping AI-powered data centers will fill the void.

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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X

The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.

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A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.

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Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

When Anthropic’s older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, they noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

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Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

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Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

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