This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.
Michele Spagnuolo was arrested for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, but the Switzerland-based engineer says he was simply gambling—activity that is beyond the reach of US commodities law.
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intel’s equivalent assembly and testing plant near Wroclaw wa…
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its first major site is a 121-megawatt campus in Norway le…
Peter Cullen, the actor most famous for voicing the lead Transformer, Optimus Prime, for over 40 years, has died.
Peter Cullen, the actor most famous for voicing the lead Transformer, Optimus Prime, for over 40 years, has died.
A glacier collapse, not rain, triggered Nepal’s deadly flash flood. Scientists explain what happened, and climate change’s role behind it.