Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest…
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI…
Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google’s AI Into the Physical World
The latest version of Google DeepMind’s AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the…
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Earlier this month, AI dataset platform Hugging Face shocked the world when it revealed that it had fallen victim to…
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have…
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was…
Andrew Garfield Weighs in on Drama Surrounding OpenAI Film ‘Artificial’
By Kirsten Chuba, Abbey White July 29, 2026 4:16pm
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting…
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues.…
It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be…