A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.